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Abram (later Abraham) was born and raised in Ur of the Chaldeans. He also married Sarai (later Sarah) there. This was the area where the descendants of Noah’s son, Shem, lived following the dispersion after the Tower of Babel and following Noah’s big ark.
22 wrz 2023 · Where Was Abraham Born? Abraham (first known as Abram) was born the son of Terah, who lived near the southern Mesopotamian city called “Ur of the Chaldees.” Christianity.com contributor Maddy Rager explains this city (located in modern-day Iraq) worshipped a moon god called Sin.
Abraham is given a high position of respect in three major world faiths, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the covenant, the special relationship between the Jewish people and God—leading to the belief that the Jews are the chosen people of God.
The identification of the birthplace of Abraham with Ur of Sumer in southern Iraq is standard teaching, present in almost all introductory textbooks of the Bible and the ancient Near East. Even the Vatican made this assumption when Pope John Paul II visited Ur in southern Iraq, believing it to be the birthplace of Abraham. [8]
1960 B.C.Abraham (Abram) is Born. Abram (his birth name before being renamed Abraham) is the third son born to a man named Terah living in Ur of the Chaldees. At the time of his birth his older brother Haran is about 60 years old (Genesis 11:26) with second brother Nahor at an unknown younger age.
The "father of the faithful" (Romans 4:16) is born in Ur in 1960 B.C. He lives in the city until the age of seventy when his father Terah, after the death of his oldest son Haran, decides to take his remaining family to a place that will later be named after his dead son (Genesis 11:31).
The passage claimed that Abraham was born in the Babylonian city Camarina, which it notes was also called "Uria". (Such indirect quotations of Eupolemus via Polyhistor are referred to as Pseudo-Eupolemus.)
