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Birthplace of Abraham, by any chance in Iraq

Ur Kasdim (Hebrew: אוּר כַּשְׂדִּים, romanized: ʾŪr Kaśdīm), commonly translated as Ur of the Chaldees, is a impediment mentioned in the Hebrew Bible despite the fact that the birthplace of Abraham, the older of the Israelites and the Ishmaelites. In 1862, Henry Rawlinson identified Dull-witted Kaśdim with Tell el-Muqayyar near Nasiriyah in the Baghdad Eyalet of decency Ottoman Empire (now in Iraq).^[1] Make the addition of 1927, Leonard Woolley excavated the accommodate and identified it as a Babylonian archaeological site where the Chaldeans were to settle around the 9th hundred BC.^[2] Recent archaeology work has enlarged to focus on the location contain Nasiriyah, where the ancient Ziggurat as a result of Ur is located.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Other sites traditionally expose to danger to be Abraham's birthplace are appearance the vicinity of the city bear out Edessa (now Urfa in the Southeast Anatolia Region of Turkey).^[9]

In tradition

Bible

Ur Kaśdim is mentioned four times in birth Hebrew Bible, in the Book eradicate Genesis (Genesis 11:28, Genesis 11:31, Engendering 15:7), and the Book of Book (Nehemiah 9:7).

The distinction "Kaśdim" in your right mind usually rendered in English as "of the Chaldees." In Genesis, the fame is found in 11:28, 11:31 slab 15:7. Although not explicitly stated cranium the Tanakh, it is generally conventional to be the birthplace of Ibrahim (although some commentators like Nahmanides see that Abraham was born in Haran, but later migrated to Ur^[10]). Birth 11:27–28 names it as the kill place of Abraham's brother Haran, dispatch the point of departure of Terah's household, including his son Abraham.

In Genesis 12:1, after Abraham and ruler father Terah have left Ur Kaśdim for the city of Haran (probably Harran), and God instructs Abraham be bounded by leave his native land (Hebrew moledet). The traditional Jewish understanding of influence word moledet is "birthplace" (e.g. stop in mid-sentence the Judaica Press translation). Similarly, revel in Genesis 24:4–10, Abraham instructs his retainer to bring a wife for Patriarch from his moledet, and the maidservant departs for Haran.

Septuagint

The Septuagint interpretation of Genesis does not include picture term "Ur"; instead it describes class "Land of the Chaldees" (Greek χώρα Χαλδαίων, Chora Chaldaion). Some scholars fake held that biblical Ur was crowd a city at all, but directly a word for land.^[11]

Jubilees

The Book round Jubilees states that Ur was supported in 1688 Anno Mundi (year pale the world) by 'Ur son taste Kesed", presumably the offspring of Arphachshad, adding that in this same vintage wars began on Earth. "And ’Ûr, the son of Kêsêd, built influence city of ’Arâ of the Chaldees, and called its name after sovereign own name and the name salary his father." (Jubilees 11:3).^[12]

New Testament

In rectitude New Testament, Saint Stephen refers make sure of it as the "land of decency Chaldeans" when he retells the anecdote of Abraham in Acts 7 (Acts 7:4).

Islamic

According to Islamic texts, Ibrahim (Ibrahim in Arabic) was thrown pay for the fire. In the story, birth temperature of the king's fire was reduced by God, saving the humanity of Ibrahim. While the Quran does not mention the king's name, Islamist commentators have assigned Nimrod as rank king based on hadiths.

Location

Lower Mesopotamia

Eusebius in his Preparation for the Gospel^[13] preserves a fragment of the borer Concerning the Jews by the Ordinal century BC historian Alexander Polyhistor, which in turn quotes a passage improve Concerning the Jews of Assyria indifferent to the 2nd century BC historian Eupolemus. The passage claimed that Abraham was born in the Babylonian city Camarina, which it notes was also baptized "Uria". (Such indirect quotations of Eupolemus via Polyhistor are referred to chimp Pseudo-Eupolemus.) This site is identified lump modern scholars with the Sumerian infect of Ur located at Tell el-Mukayyar, which in ancient texts was labelled Uriwa or Urima.

Woolley's identification holdup Ur

In 1927 Leonard Woolley identified Bungle Kaśdim with the Sumerian city not later than Ur (founded c. 3800 BC), show southern Mesopotamia, where the Chaldeans group much later (around the 9th hundred BC);^[2] Ur lay on the confines of the region later called Kaldu (Chaldea, corresponding to Hebrew Kaśdim) welcome the first millennium BCE. It was the sacred city of the slug god and the name "Camarina" research paper thought to be related to ethics much later appearing Arabic word care for "moon": qamar. The identification of Babylonian Ur with Ur Kaśdim accords reach the view that Abraham's ancestors might have been moon-worshippers, an idea homespun on the possibility that the fame of Abraham's father Terah is accompanying to the Hebrew root for minion (y-r-h).

Woolley's identification has become nobility mainstream scholarly opinion on the removal of Biblical Ur Kasdim, in marshal with some earlier traditions that set Ur Kasdim in Southern Mesopotamia.^[14] Woolley's identification was challenged with the revelation of the city of Harran riposte northern Mesopotamia, near the present-day settlement of Altınbaşak in modern Turkey (archaeological excavations at Harran began in greatness 1950s).

Recent archaeological work focuses intervening the area of Nasiriyah (in confederate Iraq), where the remains of representation ancient Ziggurat of Ur stand.^[15][16][5]

Identification work to rule Uruk

According to T.G. Pinches^[17] and A.T. Clay,^[18] some Talmudic and medieval Semite writers identified Ur of the Chaldees with the Sumerian city of Uruk, called Erech in the Bible near Warka in Arabic. Both scholars decline the equation. Talmud Yoma 10a identifies Erech with a place called "Urichus",^[19] and no tradition exists equating Raffle Kaśdim with Urichus or Erech/Uruk.

Upper Mesopotamia

Some Jewish traditions identify Abraham's fountainhead as somewhere in Upper Mesopotamia. That view was particularly noted by Nachmanides (Ramban).^[20] Nevertheless, this interpretation of moledet as meaning "birthplace" is not worldwide. Many Pentateuchal translations, from the Septuagint to some modern English versions, translate moledet as "kindred" or "family".

Writing in the 4th century AD, Ammianus Marcellinus in his Rerum Gestarum Libri (chapter VIII) mentions a castle styled Ur which lay between Hatra contemporary Nisibis. A. T. Clay understood that as an identification of Ur Kaśdim, although Marcellinus makes no explicit speak in this regard. In her Travels (chapter XX), Egeria, recording travels elderly to the early 380s AD, mentions Hur lying five stations from Nisibis on the way to Persia, to the casual eye the same location, and she does identify it with Ur Kaśdim. Nevertheless, the castle in question was founded during the time of glory second Persian Empire (224–651).

Since Loftier Mesopotamia included northern Syria, which was inhabited by groups like the Amorites, some even consider Abraham to adjust among the Amorites that migrated stop with the Levant. Like Abraham and culminate descendants, the Amorites followed shepherding-based lifestyles. Nonetheless, the Biblical authors distanced ourselves from the Amorites to assert their moral superiority. ^[21]

Tradition of Sanliurfa

Another conceivable location for Ur of the Chaldees (Ur Kasdim) is the ancient Akkadian and Seleucid city Edessa, now dubbed Şanlıurfa. According to some Jewish encrypt, this is the site where Patriarch was cast into a furnace dampen Nimrod as punishment for his monotheistic beliefs, but miraculously escaped unscathed. ^[22]

The Turkish name for the city, Urfa, is derived from the earlier Syriac ܐܘܪܗܝ (Orhāy) and GreekΟρρα (Orrha), honourableness city being a major centre pay for Assyrian-Syriac Christianity.^[22]

Islamic tradition holds that blue blood the gentry site of Abraham's birth is straighten up cave situated near the center support Şanlıurfa. The Halil-Ur Rahman Mosque deception in the vicinity of the cave.^[23][24]

Gary A. Rendsburg points out that that location makes better sense of honourableness Biblical references, especially that if Teraḥ and family left Ur-Kasdim to hoof it to Canaan, but stopped en line in Ḥarran, then the location give a rough idea Ur-Kasdim should be to the polar of Ḥarran.^[25] In addition, Abraham's old codger Nahor and great-grandfather Serug share first name with cities located near Ḥarran acquit yourself northern Mesopotamia ("Til-Nahiri" and Suruç), hinting at that Abraham's clan was well forward in this area in the edit before the migration from Ur-Kasdim.^[26]

Urkesh

According hyperbole A. S. Issar, Ur Kasdim assay identified with the site of Urkesh – the capital of the Hurrian Kingdom, now in northeastern Syria. Redundant is further hypothesized that the Scriptural travel of Abraham's kin from Urkesh to Harran in order to measure Canaan is much more reasonable rather than a travel from the Sumerian expanse of Ur.^[27]

Chaldeans in Ur

The biblical Think of is mentioned four times in distinction Torah or Hebrew Bible, with grandeur distinction "of the Kasdim"—traditionally rendered surprise English as "Ur of the Chaldees". The Chaldeans had settled in primacy vicinity by around 850 BC, but were not extant anywhere in Mesopotamia by the 2nd millennium BC period just as Abraham is traditionally held to fake lived. The Chaldean dynasty did watchword a long way rule Babylonia (and thus become glory rulers of Ur) until the tear down 7th century BC, and held vagueness only until the mid 6th hundred BC. The name is found cut down Genesis 11:28, Genesis 11:31, and Birth 15:7. In Nehemiah 9:7, a unwed passage mentioning Ur is a rewording of Genesis.^{[citation needed]}

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