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martes, 24 de mayo de 2022

Locals maintain history of Harran where Bible says Abraham rested

Local resident opens ancestral home to visitors, “following in Abraham’s footsteps.”

Traditional beehive home in Harran.
(photo credit: JUDITH SUDILOVSKY)

The modern-day city of Harran, with a population of close to 80,000, has existed in the same location in southeastern Turkey at the northern tip of the Fertile Crescent – which stretches from parts of northern Egypt up through the Levant, southern Iraq, Syria and parts of Iraq and Turkey – for some 4,000 years.

According to local folklore, this is the city mentioned in Genesis where Abraham’s father, Terach, decided to settle after originally setting out to lead his large family from the city of Ur to Canaan.

martes, 27 de junio de 2017

In NY, a wild exhibit on biblical Noah’s feral seafarers

Flood myths were common in the Fertile Crescent 5,000 years ago — and the Morgan Library and Museum has the artifacts to prove it


NEW YORK — Noah’s seaborne menagerie was supposed to carry enough animals, birds and insects to repopulate the earth after the great flood waters receded.