Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

At 03:19 AM 1/20/00 +0100, you wrote:

>But I say further that Ur and Harran are far apart, otherwise the
>expectations of the narrative are not met. One travelling a long way will
>stop a good stretch of the way to the ultimate destination, but if your Ur
>were in the neighbourhood of Harran then the narrative in this part would
>have little sense.

interestingly enough (or not) the current issue of BAR (which arrived today)
has an article on the Ur of Abraham- the famous one or the northern one...
listers may want to take a gander at it.

Personally i think the northern location is more likely simply because the
tradition knows the putative abraham as an aramean.  geographically this
just fits better.

but... as the whole tradition is a legend- it hardly matters to me whether
the location is north or south just as it matters precious little as to
where Job lived...

best,

Jim

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