Ur of the Chaldees

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Ur of the Chaldees:

Ever since Wooley's identification of the Biblical Ur of the Chaldees with Ur city of ancient Sumeria almost exclusively all scholars now take for granted that Ur of the Chaldees was Ur city. There have been a few scholars however who hold that Ur of the Chaldees was rather in the north of Mesopotamia. Since all the extant evidence is in favour of the northern location it seems remarkable how the pro southern faction has such a dominant hold and the pro northern theory has been given such disregard. I will now proceed to give here the evidences that I have collected up to now which totally discredits the southern view in favour of a northern location somewhere around Armenia.

(1) If Moses wrote Genesis (as attested by JC himself) then the Chaldeans were not in S Babylonia at the time of Moses;
(2) Cornuke says that Assyrian records imply that the ancient kdm of Urartu was located in NW Iran. Waddell says that ancient Armenia was called Uri. Lochore says that the Polynesian homeland of Uru was located around SE Turkey which area he says various bits of evidence which he does not list imply was called Uru. The Hurrians were based in this area around Harran (Urfa/Orchoe). Waddell also says that Carchemish was the original Sumerian Urdu/Eridu (Eddaic Urd). Fasold says Ur was located to/in the NW of Mesopotamia. There is lake Urmia Trans-Caucasia area. Jantsang/Lovecraft says Babylon ("Rome") was called Ur (cp Arab Urem/Ad = Babel);
(3) one of the Jews' 2/3 racial components/elements is Armenoid/Assyrioid;
(4) Abraham's ancestor Heber may be Iberia (Georgia), Laban could be Albania (Azerbaijan) or Lebanon;
(5) the Hebrews like the Maoris showed no signs of having earlier been city dwellers;
(6) Keller & Millard give evidence that the patriarchs may have lived near Mari & Ebla on the middle & upper Euphrates;
(7) the Semitic Akkadians (= Ki-Uru/Uru-ki origin of 'Iraq'?) & Assyrians (Asia-Euros?) were in the north of Babylonia/Mesopotamia as opposed to the Sumerians & Babylonians in the south;
(8) the Chaldees originally came from the north, Haldi was the ram god of the Urartians (Ram caught in the Thicket), the Euphrates was called the Hal (cp Hittite river Halys?);
(9) one of the 3 world locations known for longevity is the Caucasus;
(10) no trace of Abram in Ur city records;
(11) in Gen 11 & Acts 7 Ur is called a land/country;
(12) the 3rd dyn of Ur is possibly too late for Abram who lived only (1)400 yrs after the flood & at the start of history just after longevity;
(13) the "ram caught in the thicket" at Ur city is otherwise called the "goat with the tree of life";
(14) moon god (Udan/Uruki/Hurki) worship was also in Harran area cp Tsabianism;
(15) Orei means mountain, Ouranos/var means heaven/over, Ursa = Arctic.
(16) Ur is not on other side of Euphrates so Abram wouldn't have had to cross over (Hebrew) river.

* Urudtuv = Euphrates, Urud/Urdhu = Akkad/Sippar.

Refs: J Baker, L Wooley, A Millard, W Keller, AH Sayce, D Fasold, LA Waddell, C Carpenter, DM Rohl, CS Coon, LD Gadd, NK Sandars, DM Lang, G Massey, Hrozny, Z Ragozin, Sykes. [Acknowls: KR Bolton, R Lochore, C Misler, B Cornuke, T Jantsang, Lovecraft, Libronix/Logos.]