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Ancient name for ur. In this video we take a quick look at Ur one of the oldest cities in the world. It is either anachronistic or a poor translation. The Septuagint an Ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament simply calls Ur of the Chaldees the land of the Chaldees and in the New Testament Stephen reviewing the history of Israel says that Abraham came out of land of the Chaldeans Acts 74.
One of the copies from Ur is kept in the British Museum. Ur had a long history of being one of ancient Mesopotamias greatest cultur. It was also used as a praenomen or given name by the Furia and Menenia families.
Ur at just two letters is one of the shortest city names in the entire Bible. Ur modern Tall al-Muqayyar or Tell el-Muqayyar Iraq important city of ancient southern Mesopotamia Sumer situated about 140 miles 225 km southeast of the site of Babylon and about 10 miles 16 km west of the present bed of the Euphrates River. THE MOUND BUILDERS OF MUU.
The city of Ur was one of the most important Sumerian city states in ancient Mesopotamia during the 3 rd millennium BC. Ur was an ancient seat of lunar moon worship 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia and was a dominant political center as early as 3000 BC. First the ancient name of the tell Uri m is similar in sound to the Hebrew ur rendered in English as Ur.
The land of Chaldea contain riches beyond imagination and Ur was the wealthiest city. Kidadl has lots of. The southernmost portion of ancient Sumer was called Chaldea and the most important Sumerian city was located on the western portion of the Euphrates River and it was called Ur.
It is mostly translated as Ur of the Chaldeans The problem with Chaldeans is that it is a late word used in the Neo-Babylonian times. Roman cognomen of unknown meaning possibly from a combination of Greek ἄγριος agrios meaning wild and ἵππος hippos meaning horse or alternatively of Etruscan origin. He lived some twenty-eight hundred years BC and took part in building the famous temple of the moon-god Sin in Ur itself.