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UR OF THE CHALDEES. The city which Terah and Abram left to go to Harran (Gn. 11:28, 31; 15:7; Ne. 9:7). Considered by Stephen to be in Mesopotamia (Acts 7:2, 4).
An old identification of Heb. Ñu‚r with Urfa (Edessa), 32 km NW of Harran, is unlikely on philological grounds, and UraÐ is the name of several places known in Asia Minor.
Moreover, such an identification would require Abraham to retrace his steps E before setting out W towards Canaan. This identification requires that the 'Chaldea' which identifies the location must be equated with Hãaldai (part of ancient Armenia). The *Chaldeans were a Semitic people known in Babylonia from at least the end of the 2nd millennium bc, but there are no references to their presence in N Mesopotamia. lxx wrote 'the land (cho„ra) of the Chaldees', perhaps being unfamiliar with the site. However, Eupolemus (c. 150 bc) refers to Ur as a city in Babylonia called Camarina ('the moon') or Ouria. The Talmudic interpretation of Ur as Erech is unlikely since the latter is distinguished in Gn. 10:10.
The most generally accepted identification is with the ancient site of Ur (Uri), modern Tell el-Muqayyar, 14 km W of Nasiriyeh on the river Euphrates in S Iraq.
Excavations at this site in 1922-34 by the joint British Museum and University Museum, Philadelphia, expedition under Sir C. L. Woolley traced the history of the site from the ÑAl ÐUbaid period (5th millennium bc) until it was abandoned about 300 bc. Many spectacular discoveries were made, especially in the royal cemeteries of the early Dynastic 3 period (c. 2500 bc). Beneath these a layer of silt was at first equated with the flood of the Epic of Gilgamesh and Genesis (see now Iraq 26, 1964, pp. 65ff.). The ruins of the temple tower (ziggurat) built by Ur-Nammu, the founder of the prosperous 3rd Dynasty (c. 2150-2050 bc) still dominate the site (*Babel). The history and economy of the city is well known from thousands of inscribed tablets and the many buildings found at the site.
The principal deity was Nannar (Semitic Sin or SuÑen), who was also worshipped at Harran. The city was later ruled by the Neo-Babylonian (Chaldean) kings of Babylonia.

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Ur 30, 55, 8 degrees N, 46, 6 29 E (About 700 miles from Ur to Canaan where Abraham settled)
The kids in the picture are natives of that land area north of Abraham's birth home.

To the right of the purple dot is Canaan/Israel. The green line is about 700 miles between Canaan and Abraham's home, the red is Iraq and the end of the blue arrow is the approximate area of Ur.
GENESIS 11:27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered lot.
GENESIS 11:28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
GENESIS 11:29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
Abraham and the gang left Ur about 100 years before the first Israelite was ever born. An Israelite (being the descendant of Israel/Jacob), Abraham never lived to see the first Israelite.
A goyim / gentile being any one who is not a descendant of Jacob, of course every one on earth was a goyim until after Jacob produced his first son, then ONLY the descendants of Jacob were not goyim.
"Converting" to "Judaism" would not change who your ancestors were and of course (though they call themselves "Jews") they remain goyim.

Here is a Marsh Land Iraqi and his boy in a boat and on the right is a couple Europeans calling themselves "Jews". Which would you guess were related to the European Druids and which had an actual chance of being related to Abraham?

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