This lecture includes overviews of the Babylonian, Hyksos and Amorite empires. Dr. Neiman illustrates how the fortunes of these great empires impacted the life of Abraham the Ivri. (55 min.)
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Dr. David Neiman traces the political and social conditions that existed at the time of Abraham the patriarch and explains how these events impacted Abraham’s wanderings, business and battles.
This lecture includes overviews of the Babylonian, Hyksos and Amorite empires. Dr. Neiman illustrates how the fortunes of these great empires impacted the life of Abraham the Ivri.
From the notes of Dr. David Neiman:
Assuming that Abraham and Sarah are historical figures; if Ur of the Chaldees was in southern Babylonia, they spoke Babylonian, the same language as that of the Code of Hammurabi. If, on the other hand, the Ur which was their place of origin was northern Ur, along the banks of the Upper Euphrates, their original language would have been Aramaic. In fact the biblical account itself declares that the original ancestors of Israel were Aramaeans.