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  • From: Tory Thorpe <torythrp AT yahoo.com>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Was Abraham Born in Mesopotamia?
  • Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 12:18:03 -0500

On Nov 5, 2007, at 11:25 AM, jason silber wrote:

JIm,

Did anyone raise the issue that Ur Kasdim didnt exist during the time Avram
was supposed to have lived?
and that since Ur was a major sophisiticated city during Babylonian exile it
is plausible that the editors of the tanakh in the 6 century BCE inserted an
Ur background to abraham to lend an air of sophistcation to Avraham and his
descendents?
Uzi

The southern city of Ur did exist that far back. You mean "Chaldeans" did not exist that far back. No documentation about them before the first millennium BCE is known and they did not become a ruling caste until the 7th and 6th centuries BCE. This may support Gen. 11:28 and 15:7 being glossed in the 6th century, but then why not Ur of the Kassites (Kasdim)? Maybe a case can be argued that the Hebrew kasdim is not a variant of kaldu (before the shift -sd to -ld in Akkadian) but is derived from Kassu/Kassat/Kassitu.

Tory Thorpe




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