Ur of the Chaldees
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Ur of the Chaldees (Hebrew: אור כשדימה, ’Ûr Kasdiy) or Ur Kaśdim is the name given to the city where Abraham was born.
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Location
The location of the particular city called "Ur of the Chaldees" is completely unsettled. Traditionally, the location of Ur is believed to be near Edessa (modern Şanlıurfa, or simply Urfa) in south-eastern Turkey however, it has been popularly identified since 1927 by Sir Charles Woolley as a Sumerian city named Ur (modern Tell el-Mukayyar). Since then, other scholars have proposed other identifications, including the city of Enoch, as if any city could have survived the Global Flood and been repopulated.
The chief flaw in the available scholarship on Ur of the Chaldees is that it assumes either that the city predated the Flood, or that Abraham lived far later than the Bible says that he lived, or that the name "of the Chaldees" is simply an anachronism. The positive identification of the city of Abraham's birth will require further research, which probably should center in the southern part of modern Iraq.
History
According to the Book of Jubilees the city of Ur was founded in 1688 AM2315 BC
1445 He
1688 AM by Ur, son of Kesed, presumably the offspring of Arpachshad, adding that in this same year wars began on Earth.
"And ’Ûr, the son of Kêsêd, built the city of ’Arâ of the Chaldees, and called its name after his own name and the name of his father." - Jubilees 11:3
References
External links
- Ur Kasdim by Wikipedia
- Ur (that is, Tell el-Mukayyar) by Wikipedia
- Ur in the E-museum of Minnesota State University
- Ur of the Chaldees by the University of Chicago
- Ur of the Chaldees at Daily Bible Study (Canada)
- Ur of the Chaldees at BibleOrigins.net
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