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chora, "land," instead of Ur.... It should be stated that there are scholars who hold, with the Septuagint, that Ur means, not a city, but perhaps a land in which the patriarch pastured his flocks, as for instance, the land of Uri or Ura (Akkad). The designation "of the Chaldeans" was in this case intended to distinguish it from the land where they were not found."
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A. T. Clay, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, 1915: "kal'-dez ('ur kasdim; he chora (ton) Chaldaion): For more than 2,000 years efforts have been made to identify the site of this city. The writers of the Septuagint, either being unfamiliar with the site, or not considering it a city, wrote
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had settled in the vicinity by around 850 BC, but were not extant anywhere in Mesopotamia during the 2nd millennium BC period when Abraham is traditionally held to have lived. The Chaldean dynasty did not rule Babylonia (and thus become the rulers of Ur) until the late 7th century BC, and held
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Since Upper Mesopotamia included northern Syria, which was inhabited by groups like the Amorites, some even consider Abraham to be among the Amorites that migrated to the Levant. Like Abraham and his descendants, the Amorites followed shepherding-based lifestyles. Nonetheless, the Biblical authors
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local community. It will also build a foundation for future archaeologists to again resume serious research and investigation of this seminal site. In 2009, an agreement was established for joint archaeological research and excavations by the University of Pennsylvania and the Government of Iraq.
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Through joint efforts of the U.S.-based Global Heritage Fund, the Iraq Ministry of Culture, State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, and the Dhiqar Antiquities Office, what remains of Ur will be systematically restored and stabilized and a plan established to breath new life into tourism and the
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points out that this location makes better sense of the Biblical references, especially that if Teraḥ and family left Ur-Kasdim to travel to Canaan, but stopped en route in Ḥarran, then the location of Ur-Kasdim should be to the north of Ḥarran. In addition, Abraham's grandfather
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Woolley's identification has become the mainstream scholarly opinion on the location of Biblical Ur Kasdim, in line with some earlier traditions that placed Ur Kasdim in Southern Mesopotamia. Woolley's identification was challenged with the discovery of the city of
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lying five stations from Nisibis on the way to Persia, apparently the same location, and she does identify it with Ur Kaśdim. However, the castle in question was only founded during the time of the
443:. The identification of Sumerian Ur with Ur Kaśdim accords with the view that Abraham's ancestors may have been moon-worshippers, an idea based on the possibility that the name of Abraham's father 377:. The passage claimed that Abraham was born in the Babylonian city Camarina, which it notes was also called "Uria". (Such indirect quotations of Eupolemus via Polyhistor are referred to as 1403: 1090: 828: 885: 1232: 692:– the capital of the Hurrian Kingdom, now in northeastern Syria. It is further hypothesized that the Biblical travel of Abraham's kin from Urkesh to Harran in order to reach 658: 924: 856: 1288: 327:
in Arabic) was thrown into the fire. In the story, the temperature of the king's fire was reduced by God, saving the life of Ibrahim. While the
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The dig began last month when the six-member British team worked with four Iraqi archaeologists to dig in the Tell Khaiber in the southern
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were to settle around the 9th century BC. Recent archaeology work has continued to focus on the location in Nasiriyah, where the ancient
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understand that Abraham was born in Haran, but later migrated to Ur). Genesis 11:27–28 names it as the death place of Abraham's brother
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10a identifies Erech with a place called "Urichus", and no tradition exists equating Ur Kaśdim with Urichus or Erech/Uruk.
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translation of Genesis does not include the term "Ur"; instead it describes the "Land of the Chaldees" (Greek
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tradition holds that the site of Abraham's birth is a cave situated near the center of Şanlıurfa. The
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and the name "Camarina" is thought to be related to the much later appearing Arabic word for "moon":
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Other sites traditionally thought to be Abraham's birthplace are in the vicinity of the city of
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The Old Testament in the light of the historical records and legends of Assyria and Babylonia
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share names with cities located near Ḥarran in northern Mesopotamia ("Til-Nahiri" and
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refers to it as the "land of the Chaldeans" when he retells the story of Abraham in
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The Athenæum: A Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama
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The distinction "Kaśdim" is usually rendered in English as "of the Chaldees." In
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as punishment for his monotheistic beliefs, but miraculously escaped unscathed.
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Another possible location for Ur of the Chaldees (Ur Kasdim) is the ancient
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in modern Turkey (archaeological excavations at Harran began in the 1950s).
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distanced themselves from the Amorites to assert their moral superiority.
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in modern Iraq, the current scholarly consensus for the city of Ur Kaśdim
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Pococke, Richard; Gravelot, Hubert François; Grignion, Charles (1743).
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Some Jewish traditions identify Abraham's birthplace as somewhere in
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Woolley’s Ur Revisited, Richard L. Zettler, BAR 10:05, Sep/Oct 1984.
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is much more reasonable than a travel from the Sumerian city of Ur.
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does not mention the king's name, Muslim commentators have assigned
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According to A. S. Issar, Ur Kasdim is identified with the site of
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Islamic traditions connecting Abraham's early life and Sanli Urfa.
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Biblical Archaeology Review May/June 2001: Where Was Abraham's Ur?
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power only until the mid 6th century BC. The name is found in
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located at Tell el-Mukayyar, which in ancient texts was named
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From Creation to Abraham: Further Studies in Genesis 1-11
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in Turkey, an alternative candidate city for Ur Kaśdīm
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in Arabic. Both scholars reject the equation. Talmud
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A description of the East, and some other countries
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Francis: 529–531. 752: 598: 212:'s household, including his son Abraham. 161:Ur Kaśdim is mentioned four times in the 1222: 1088: 826: 770: 768: 544:to some modern English versions, render 447:is related to the Hebrew root for moon ( 30: 18: 1244: 1242: 1223:Bohstrom, Philippe (February 6, 2017). 1126: 1001: 16:Birthplace of Abraham, possibly in Iraq 1411: 1392:COJS: Royal Tombs of Ur, 2600-2500 BCE 1335:(Tel Aviv, 1993), p.87; Yaakov Medan, 1127:Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge (1902). 774: 528:. This view was particularly noted by 1342: 922: 831:. Popular Archaeology. Archived from 765: 753:Rawlinson, Henry C. (19 April 1862). 323:According to Islamic texts, Abraham ( 247:, and the servant departs for Haran. 1239: 519: 369:, which in turn quotes a passage in 347: 1026: 281:states that Ur was founded in 1688 51: 13: 1191: 699: 661:lies in the vicinity of the cave. 463:, near the present-day village of 431:(Chaldea, corresponding to Hebrew 35:Abraham's pool heritage site near 14: 1470: 1359: 802:Sinan Salaheddin (4 April 2013). 361:preserves a fragment of the work 1056:Salaheddin, Sinan (2013-04-04). 373:by the 2nd century BC historian 365:by the 1st century BC historian 294: 208:, and the point of departure of 1325: 1306: 1281: 1267: 1216: 1185: 1161: 1137: 1081: 1049: 1020: 995: 971: 961: 888:. 11 March 2016. 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Index


Ur

Urfa
Hebrew
romanized
Chaldees
Hebrew Bible
Abraham
patriarch
Israelites
Ishmaelites
Henry Rawlinson
Tell el-Muqayyar
Nasiriyah
Baghdad Eyalet
Ottoman Empire
Iraq
Leonard Woolley
Sumerian
Chaldeans
Ziggurat of Ur
Edessa
Urfa
Southeastern Anatolia Region
Hebrew Bible
Book of Genesis
Genesis 11:28
Genesis 11:31
Genesis 15:7

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