Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk"<peter_kirk AT sil.org>]

Sorry, I didn't want to repeat my whole argument, but no doubt it has 
been forgotten. The point is simply that it would be rather ridiculous 
to pack up one's belongings and set out for distant Canaan only to 
abandon one's journey at the next town, but not go back home. So it 
doesn't make sense if Ur is near to Haran. Now I would accept that Ur 
might have been 100 miles of so east of Haran in the Khabur valley but 
still in northern Mesopotamia, and that would be a sensible scenario. 
But where exactly are these alleged alternative Ur's?

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re[3]: SV: Gilgamesh (Jonathan)
Author:  <scarlson AT mindspring.com> at Internet
Date:    19/01/2000 21:35


At 12:52 AM 1/20/00 -0500, Peter Kirk wrote:
>Jonathan, you don't need to use that tone. You have failed to deal 
>with Ian's point (which he may have got from me) that Genesis 11:31 
>indicates that Haran is a long way from Ur Kasdim, not just that both 
>are a long way from Canaan.

I've looked at Gen. 11:31 several times tonight, and I can't find 
any indication that Haran is a long way from Ur Kasdim.  It merely 
says that Abraham left Ur Kasdim to go to Canaan, but stopped in 
Haran (which is actually on the way in the northern scenario).  How 
do you understand the verse?

Stephen Carlson
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