...You misunderstand the situation. The Semites in the southern Ur were not an underclass. If, as many do, we date Abraham to the Ur III period of revival following the period of domination by the Gutians, this was in fact a period of revival of Sumerian culture, but only after a period in which Ur and all of southern Mesopotamia had been dominated by the Semites of Akkad/Agade. Perhaps Terah and Abraham, as Semites, felt unwelcome in an Ur where Sumerians had regained dominance, and so moved to more clearly Semitic lands to the north west.
Precisely. There is no evidence for you to rule out him being from Sumer, and no evidence for others to rule out him being from Edessa/Urfa. There is insufficient evidence either way.The strongest evidence is the name of the place listed as Abraham’s birth
place. That it is connected with a Semitic people argues against it being
Sumer. Even a Sumer with a Semitic underclass.
...
Don’t be ridiculous! The reason the teacher picked on him was because he was
ethnic Chinese. That he was born in Canton, Ohio rules out that he was
immigrant Chinese, opposite of what the teacher expected.
The connection here to Abraham is that he was ethnic Semite. ...
... Walter Mattfeld just argued that history places many ethnic Semites
living in Ur of the Sumerians, so the ethnicity argument is weakened. But
from the article you linked http://fontes.lstc.edu/~rklein/Documents/Ur.htm
apparently there were several places with a name that would be written as
Aleph Waw Resh in Hebrew, the locations of which today are unknown or can
only be guessed at, so the question becomes which place was Abraham from?
That it was a place connected with a Semitic people is a pretty strong
argument against Ur of the Sumerians. ...
... By naming several places as having the same name, the article explains
why the place wasn’t just called “Ur” rather “Ur of the Chaldeas”. Further,
looking at the Hebrew pronunciation of Chaldean, K#DYM, it sounds like it
indicates a people who in Abraham’s time probably lived north of Babylon,
while Sumer was to the south.
...
What you or anyone who argues that Abraham was from Sumer needs to do is to
find an original reference (in other words, ancient from about the time of
Abraham, not modern after archeology uncovered Ur or the Sumerians) that
refers to Ur of the Sumerians ...
... as )WR K#DYM or the equivelant. ...
... Right now, the name of the locale pretty much rules out Ur of the
Sumerians.
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