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I've never seen anything to support that. Middle-east desert nations have populations with swarthy skin so they don't get skin cancer as easily as more pale skinned people. One of the reasons we know Ashkenazis are not real Hebrews, is that Israel has the 2nd highest incidence of skin cancer in the whole world, losing only to Australia. Both are lands populated by lighter skinned people than normally live there. Abraham was from Arabia; it makes sense that he would look like an Arab, not like a German or a Swede.
Swarthy also implies dark hair too though, its possible the ancient Hebrews were a tanned but blonde and blue eyed race (in fact, the arayans probably where too since they lived in Mesopotamia). Keep in mind, the greeks, the only living relatives to the actual Hebrews (according to Maccabees at least), are also generally dark skinned, but can have blonde hair and blue eyes, and were probably a lot fairer before they got mongrelized under islamic occuopations. (The Arabs were probably a lot lighter in the past too before they started miscegenating aggressively. Arabs are also descended from Abraham, they arent actually native to arabia, but rather mongrelized with the many Canaanite nations originally dwelling there)
Abram would have come out of Sumer. According to the Sumerians, they arrived in Sumer a few generations after the flood and settled cities that had been prebuild by the gods.
Sumerians weren't even indigenous to the region. In those times Ur was an almost coastal city and Mesopotamia was a hot, though temperate swampy place.
It makes no sense for God to promise a land to Abraham where he and his progeny would be wrecked by skin cancer. They were brown arabs. There is no need to try to find a way to make them white Scandanavians.
Sumerians weren't even indigenous to the region. In those times Ur was an almost coastal city and Mesopotamia was a hot, though temperate swampy place.