Category: Toponyms

It is generally agreed that (ăpăr), in ancient Hebrew, denotes dust and similar material.

Littoral north-eastern Arabia had a distinctive culture in Pre-Islamic Arabia. Few centuries before the advent of Islam, this region was predominantly Christian.

No biblical sites can be identified with high degree of certainty, only few identification can be considered proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. [01] One reason is that Emperor Constantine, the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity, sent his mother Helena, in 320s, to travel to the Levant to identify Biblical sites. Helena…

According to the bible, Noah’s Ark is the boat through which God spares Noah, his family, and examples of all the world’s animals from a global deluge. The Biblical account shares many details with earlier Mesopotamian stories, which demonstrates the existence of shared culture traits that spanned the ancient Near East both geographically and temporally,…

“Ur of the Chaldees” is a toponym mentioned in the Bible as the birthplace of biblical Abraham. The original Hebrew name of this place is: “אוּר כַּשְׂדִּים”, (Ūr Kašdīm). In Septuagint, the earliest Greek translation of the Old Testament, “Ūr Kašdīm” is rendered as “χώρα τῶν Χαλδαίων”, (khôra ton Khaldion). Ūr (אוּר) was translated as…