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From: "Walter R. Mattfeld" <mattfeld12 AT charter.net>
Karl has argued that Abraham was a Semite and spoke a Semitic language, ergo he was _not_ a Sumerian from Ur of Lower Mesopotamia, but of Urfa (modern Edessa) in Northern Syria not far from biblical Haran, a site in some Islamic traditions associated with him.First, while not denying the possibility, I never categorically claimed that
Abraham was from Urfa (modern Edessa).
That there was an ancient town in a Semitic language speaking area with a
name whose pronunciation was almost identical to the Biblical Ur pretty much
clinches it for me.
But unless you have documents to show that show that Abraham was a Sumerian,
contradicting the document that we have, then you must admit that the Bible
at least claims that Abraham was a Chaldean.
Let’s go back to archeology: unless the reports I heard were wrong, the
tablets at Ebla mentioned that there were two cities named Ur, one was Ur of
the Sumerians and the other Ur of the Chaldeas.
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