![]() International Routes, The King’s Highway – Holman Bible Atlas Mesopotamia: Homeland of Abraham – Holman Bible AtlasĮgypt: Land of Bondage – Holman Bible Atlas Modern States and the Ancient Near East – Holman Bible Atlas The Ancient Near East – Holman Bible Atlas Jump to: Palestine ** Abraham ** Exodus Joshua ** Judges ** David ** Kings ** Exile ** Next **Ĭomplete list: Old Testament MapsĬomplete list: All MapsĪncient Near East Palestine & t he Ancient Near East All map attributions can be found in their related articles and links. Please contact those sources for the rights to use a map. Please note the maps on this website are linked from other sources. An old temple, in ruins, is to be found still remaining, which was old in the time of Abram.Here are my favorite maps related to the Old Testament and where to find them. The name has been repeatedly found in the ruins. It is at a ruin called Mugheir which means pitch, from the amount of that material found there. UR, of the Chaldees, is not at Oorfah, as some suppose, for that city is not in Chaldea. This fact makes it reasonable that the site should be found in Babylonia but, as stated, although the arguments are by no means weighty, more scholars at the present favor Mugheir than any other site. The Babylonian contract literature from this, as well as other sites, is full of names from the western Semitic lands, Aram and Amurru. Western Semites-for the name Abram is not Babylonian-lived in this city in large numbers in the age when the patriarch lived. This fact would account for the failure to identify the place in the late pre-Christian centuries, when Urima or Uru still flourished. Still another identification is the town Uru (Mar-tu) near Sippar, a place of prominence in the time of Abraham, but which was lost sight of in subsequent periods (compare Amurru, 167). ![]() The designation "of the Chaldeans" was in this case intended to distinguish it from the land where they were not found. 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). Although these two deities in later centuries were identified with each other, still the argument seems to have little weight, as other deities were also prominently worshipped in those cities, particularly Haran, which fact reminds us also that the Talmud says Terah worshipped no less than 12 deities. This, however, is precarious, because Urumma or Urima in Abraham's day was a Sumerian center, and the seat of Nannar-worship, whereas Haran was Semitic, and was dedicated to Sin. Another argument which has been advanced for this identification is that Haran, the city to which Terah migrated, was also a center of moon-god worship. This, some hold, accords with the view of Eupolemus, because Camarina may be from the Arabic name of the moon qamar, which refers perhaps to the fact that the ancient city was dedicated to the worship of the moon-god. This borders on the district which in the 1st millennium B.C. The most generally-accepted theory at the present time is that Ur is to be identified with the modern Mugheir (or Mughayyar, "the pitchy") in Southern Babylonia, called Urumma, or Urima, and later Uru in the inscriptions. But Seleucus is credited with having built this city. Owing to its nearness to Haran, and because Stephen placed it in Mesopotamia, Urfa or Oorfa, named Edessa by the Greeks, has also in modern times been identified as the city. Ammianus Marcellinus identified the city with the castle of Ur in the desert between Hatra and Nisibis, but this was only founded in the time of the Persians. The cuneiform writing of this city, Urnki, would seem to support this view, but Erech is mentioned in Genesis. The Talmud, however, as well as some later Arabic writers, regarded Erech (the Septuagint Orek) as the city. Stephen ( Acts 7:2, 4) regarded the place as being in Mesopotamia. Eupolemus, who lived about 150 B.C., spoke of it as being a city of Babylonia called Camarina, which he said was called by some Ouria. The writers of the Septuagint, either being unfamiliar with the site, or not considering it a city, wrote chora, "land," instead of Ur. 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.
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