Genesis 11:28, 31 - Ur of the Chaldeans

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Perhaps you all could help. What or who is Ur of the Chaldeans?

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It’s a place–Ur was a city near the Persian Gulf, around the area of the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers.
 
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Perhaps you all could help. What or who is Ur of the Chaldeans?

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Ur was a city in Mesopotamia, best known as the location of a short-lived dynasty conventionally dated from 2112 to 2004.​

It was also important, like Harran, as the site of a major temple of the moon-god Nanna, AKA Sin or Su’en.

as for the Hebrew name Ur Chasdim - “Chasdim” is a late form of the name of the people known as the Khaldu, who did not enter Mesopotamia until many centuries after the possible dates for Abraham (which are between 1800 & 1400 or so). IOW, “Chasdim” is not what it would have been called between those dates, as there were no Chaldeans at the time.

mnsu.edu/emuseum/archaeology/sites/middle_east/ur.html

ancientneareast.tripod.com/Ur_Muqayyar.html

oi.uchicago.edu/OI/UR/Ur_home.html

thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ixbin/goto?id=enc386%20

And in 2003 😦

thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ixbin/goto?id=enc386%20

Hope that helps 🙂
 
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