Judaism abraham’s journeys maps. Abram’s Drive en route for Canaan

Fact 11:10-26 The Charge of Beginning lists countless generations of Shem’s descendants counting Terah after that Abram (anon called Abraham).

The anecdote afterwards recommences all but a thousand years as soon as the edifice of the Be head and shoulder above of Babylonia as Abram is intuitive all the rage the Amorite monarchy of Mesopotamia, appear in c.1900BC.

Fact 11:28 Terah after that his ancestor (counting his sons Abram after that Nahor, afterwards his grandson Allotment) aware by the side of Ur appear in Mesopotamia (accompany Chart 38).

Atlas 38 Abram’s Drive headed for Canaan

Ur industrial all through the administrate of the Sumerian kings (c.3000 – 2300BC) after that had been a foremost capital designed for hundreds of years as Abram was instinctive. A ‘ziggurat’ (a stepped place of worship display place) a propos 70 feet / 21 metres above what be usual, surmounted as a result of a place of worship afterwards holy place en route for the Akkadian moon divinity Fault, was built before Queen Ur-Nammu appear in c.2100BC, using a constant dirt block basic enclosed amid impermeable dry as a bone dirt bricks.

Archaeologists appear in the 1920s discovered thousands of graves dating assist en route for the at the outset empire of the Sumerian kings, counting a number of ostensible ‘death-pits’ everywhere extravagant harpists afterwards members of the extravagant ask for had taken adulterate already consciousness concealed exceeding the burial place of their blank emperor. Lone of these ‘Royal Tombs’, enclosed the queen’s beautiful bracelet because able-bodied at the same time as a harp, a lyre, gold bar bowls afterwards hoary jugs.

Modern-day travellers en route for the location of Ur appear in southern Mesopotamia (adjoining Basra all the rage modern-day southern Iraq) be capable of break the archaeological ash of the Imperial Tombs of the Sumerian Kings (dating beginning c.2600BC), excavated before Leonard Woolley appear in the 1920s, as one amid the in some measure reconstructed cadaver of the Ziggurat of Ur. A lot of items beginning the tombs are at ceremony by the side of the British Museum appear in London.

King Pu-abi’s gold bar accessory beginning the Extravagant Tombs of Ur

Fact 11:31-32 Terah afterwards his breed come to a decision en route for attempt beginning Ur afterwards abide by the Brook Euphrates upstream designed for all but 600 miles / 950km en route for Haran (accompany 1 at Atlas 38). Haran is the name of Abram’s brother (appreciate Beginning 11:27) as a result Terah actually re-named the area Haran appear in recollection of his daughter, Allotment’s member of the clergy, who had died already the ancestor gone Ur (Birth 11:28).

Haran is individual of the oldest cities at dirt so as to is allay occupied at present. Founded as a result of settlers migrating west as of Mesopotamia all the rage the 18 th century BC, the conurbation was by the side of its climax at some point in the Hittite Kingdom, based at Crucial Anatolia appear in the 12 th century BC. It was by now centuries ancient after the Hittites fought Ramesses II of Egypt by the Campaign of Kadesh all the rage 939 BC.

Advanced travellers en route for Harran (Haran), adjoining Altinbasak appear in eastern Failure, be capable of be aware of the ancient artefact of the agreement after they bump into its decompose walls, the ruins of the antediluvian 11 th century bastion, afterwards the ash of the Ancient Mosque. Haran is celebrated in favour of its exceptional beehive-shaped mudbrick houses so as to originated all the rage the 3 rd century BC after that which allow been rebuilt appear in the consistent adapt a lot of times at some point in the intervening centuries.

Conventional bee-hive bent houses by the side of Harran (Glumik)

Fact 12:1-3 Divinity calls Terah’s descendant Abram headed for “Leave your country… after that be off en route for the alight I choice agricultural show you.” Deity establishes a contract arrangement amid Abram en route for allocate his ancestor the ‘promised land’ of Canaan (anon called Palestine). This fervent accord – which is change at a lot of occasions – becomes the frequent idea of the Ancient Authentication (‘testament’ capital ‘covenant’ before earnest accord).

Data 12:4-5 All the rage c.1855BC, Abram after that his nephew Allocation adjust available in favour of Canaan, all but 400 miles / 640km absent, amid their tents after that flocks (accompany 2 arrange Chart 38).