Home of Abram

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It has been conjectured to be the home of Abram. However, this is currently unacceptable to mainstream scholars who attest that the correct locality of Abram's birth is actually in southeastern Turkey, near Edessa. The structure was reconstructed during the 1980s.

Ur Kaśdim or "Ur of the Chaldees" (אור כשדים) is the town in the Hebrew Bible and related literature where Abram was said to have been born. The traditional site of his birth is in the vicinity of Edessa [although Ur Kaśdim has been popularly identified since 1927 by Sir Charles Woolley with the Sumerian city of Ur, in southern Mesopotamia, which was under the rule of the Chaldeans]. Josephus, Islamic tradition, and Jewish authorities like Maimonides all concur that Ur Kaśdim was in Northern Mesopotamia — now southeastern Turkey (identified with Urkesh, Urartu, Urfa, and Kutha respectively).
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur_Kasdim
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Coordinates:   30°57'34"N   46°6'26"E

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  • You mean, Ur of the Khaldis, in southwestern Turkey? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur_Kasdim Ur Kaśdim or "Ur of the Chaldees" (אור כשדים) is the town in the Hebrew Bible and related literature where Abram was said to have been born. The traditional site of his birth is in the vicinity of Edessa [although Ur Kaśdim has been popularly identified since 1927 by Sir Charles Woolley with the Sumerian city of Ur, in southern Mesopotamia, which was under the rule of the Chaldeans]. Josephus, Islamic tradition, and Jewish authorities like Maimonides all concur that Ur Kaśdim was in Northern Mesopotamia — now southeastern Turkey (identified with Urkesh, Urartu, Urfa, and Kutha respectively).
  • Interesting. The house of a man who almost probably never existed.
  • almost, probably, and never, should almost, probably, never be in the same sentence. HOOAH
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