adam/hadaam was a post-sargonic/post-akkadian west-semitic amorite who moved from the upper-balikh to the western-khabur for survival from drought during phreatic venting of karaca-dag/mt-masius. we can put the northern west-semites (not to be confused with the northwest-semites) 2148bce in the jazira region (modern kurdistan's rojava); can use bat/bar-mitzvah-ages for generational turnover; can see easy numerical transformations of documentary ages that confirm and fit biostats (6mo shanim, lunar years); can find textual references to the harran/reseph/gozan cis-euphrates region, etc.
eve could be hurrian, or trans-euphratean (e.g., ugarit [h]e[pbv]-at). cain moves east of [the pishon/balikh part of] eden/padan-aram and has urbanizing descendants in the central- and eastern-khabur/gihon region. enoch-of-seth returns west to join the watcher/apkallu-like -el-theophoric "priest"/astronomers in "syria". thus his longevity is unrecorded in tribal memory.
noah retreats to an arg+kite at mardin in the ararat/urartu front range, above the plain, to survive the pluvial tephra lahar that destroys ag-settlements along banks of central-khabur 1959bce (study dimensions/depths). the great amorite diaspora and migration begins. ur-iii and remnants of akkadian east-semitic civilization resist the "mardu" without success. "mizraim" heads to amorite goshen. "elam" heads to isin-larsa (see later kudur-mabuk). arphachsad, or eber, goes back to sanliurfa. importantly, sumu-abum founds amorite babylon, and shamshi-adad turns the assur area amorite; these two are often conflated as a single nimrod character despite living 100yrs and 500mi apart (occupying two different stanzas). these are warlord kings: uncivilized mar-tu who don't cultivate.
terah probably could be a chaldean of sanliurfa, or chaldean-adjacent. probably bilingual in hurrian/amorite. likely the amorite chieftan who controls harran. he has a spat with other chaldeans, loses his intended inheriting eponymous heir from first family: passes legacy to nahor/"river". abram has his own following, leader of his amorite "army" of pastoralists, a scholar of the astronomical traditions that are known to the balikh amorites, and is a moon worshiper holdout in sanliurfa. storm-god/sacrifice worshipers filter in from yahmhad. this suggests a move to canaan, where other amorites have gone, founding amorite damascus in the shadow of amorite aleppo.
sarai is literally renamed s[h]arah/asherah, which signals alignment with the moon cult of yarikh/sin/nanna (northern urfa and southern coastal ur both moon cult centers, cf. i-sin/sin-ai). she convinces abram not to sacrifice her not-quite-legitimate child, and not to excommunicate him as nephilim (half-breed: half-amorite-tribal, half-not). it's conceivable that the biological-father is a a member of wilderness bedouin tribes (cf. kenites). abram becomes abram-ah/abraham, with theophoric infix, reconnects with his brother in padan-aram. descendants multiply in the hills of hebron. abraham is too early to be an israeli, too early to speak hebrew, and is the genetic progenitor of ishmael not isaac, but he adds his name to the schism rejecting amorite human sacrifice.
jacob, beautiful and sexual sires a "troop" with wives and servants. they become powerful and respected in southwest-canaan, but drought forces them into goshen as the amorite hyksos era is beginning. they are received by long lost joseph, also a beautiful man, and wise. abram was a scholar of the skies, a wily war band tactician, a negotiator of water rights, and a survivor of imperial encounters, but his line starts favoring good looking people with a propensity to procreate. in heliopolis/on/awen, near modern cairo, arises a minority enclave with strong ties to the sinaitic nomads and their religion, which we now call yahwist. with joseph's death and the return of sacrifice-hungry deities, set/hadad under sakir-har then apepi, the corvee labor and religious hegemony become punitive and punishing.
moses is an egyptian politically, but from jacob genetically. he escapes into the desert, where many find hospitality among fellow amorites who remain nomadic. times are changing for the amorites. their empires in babylon and aleppo are crushed by the kanesh/hittites of hattusha and halys, their gods of marduk/astarte/yam/hadad are revealed powerless before the indo-european anatolians (despite sharing chariot innovations). the thera eruption changes knosssos on minoan crete (A-to-B), which is in contact with hyksos egypt. pumice causes famine, and contumacy against a royal first-born culling edict requires immediate escape, 1585bce. they plunge into the western-sinai with other rebels, whom they despise for their non-levite religion, and quickly eliminate. a law code in the hammurabi tradition is struck in stone in proto-sinaitic script, paleo-hebrew, an efficient neologistic pidgin hieroglyphy. after twenty years of fighting through eastern-levantine amorite relatives, mostly descending from lot and worshiping some permutation of baal/hadad through molech (chemosh/milcom/melqart/amalekites), they find themselves in the northern-moabite plain, where siddim itself had seen sodom lost to airborne sulphur. they siege, breach, and raze jericho, thus making the dry hills safe for pastoralists (because they have new rain-catching methods, and urbans mistreated pastoralists, especially with wife-taking). meanwhile, the ruralists continually denigrate and consider sinful any civilized pursuits/sciences/arts of the urbane (a common luddite/amish-like prejudice going back to cain's days).
having helped hyksos take power, they now leave the southern buffer vulnerable to thebes. the next 800yrs are spent hiding from hittite-vs-egyptian struggles, mostly trying to keep yahwism monotheist (at the expense of allied deities yarikh and asherah), to keep el from being cofused with baal-hadad, excoriating those who still perform molech-dm (hadaam) because of older ritual entrenchment and anthropocentric aetiology. they get recruited in bronze-age collapse by displaced indo-europeans from as far as sardinia (the sherden) whose post-nuragic forms of agriculture/trade have failed. this is when israel becomes a nation, not merely a tribe of jacob descendants bickering as shasu and habiru; the next few centuries are spent dealing with non-yahwist neighbors: both "philistine" keftu linear-B coastals to the west, and hadad-molech amorite distant relatives to the east and south. proto-arab tribes remain in the sinai and become proto-nabateans, while to the northwest, phoenician cities preserve child-sacrifice canaanite culture across the sea as punic carthage. arameans rise. on the northeast, neo-hittite states are entwined with neo-assyria, which is somewhat amorite but on its own post-east-semitic path, and with neo-babylon, which is chaldean after those ahlamu finally move south through khana/gozan/suhum. the story of the amorites has ended, but west-semitic dialects are newly arisen in the levant.