Archibald Sayce translated an Akkadian poem the “describes a rain of fire similar in character and effect to that which destroyed the cities of the plain.” He goes on to say that since Chedorlaomer and his allies were the ones…
Bereishit יג (Genesis 13) 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the LORD, like the…
Bereishit יב (Genesis 12) 10 And there was a famine in the land; and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land. According to tradition there was a famine in the land…
Bereishit יב (Genesis 12) 8 And he removed from there unto the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Ai on the east; and he built there an altar unto the…
Bereishit יב (Genesis 12) 1 Now the Eternal One said unto Avram: ‘Get out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house, unto the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of…
There are many traditions regarding the location of Ur Chasdim including Islam and the classical writer Eusebius. According to Islamic tradition, the birthplace of Abraham – Ur Chasdim – is location not in Mesopotamia but in southern Turkey. Islamic tradition…
Bereishit יא (Genesis 11) 27 Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begot Avram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot. 28 And Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in…
