Ur of the Chaldees
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Ur of the Chaldees
From Late Latin Ur Chaldeorum; further origin uncertain
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In 2009, Rebecca Solnit wrote, “Phoenix will be like Jericho or Ur of the Chaldees, with the shriveled relics of golf courses and the dusty hills of swimming pools added on.”
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2023
Curtis said the hope was that the museum would show artefacts from richly historical sites, including the biblical city Ur of the Chaldees, birthplace of Abraham.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 1, 2010
Archaeologists have discovered a 5,000-year-old board at the site of Ur of the Chaldees in Iraq.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2010
Art expert Bernard Berenson described her as looking "like a statue from Ur of the Chaldees."
From Time Magazine Archive
They had then probably regarded it as a superstitious practice to be eschewed like those idolatrous observances which had caused Terah to remove with Abraham and Lot from Ur of the Chaldees.
From Myths and Marvels of Astronomy by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor
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