The next verse suggests that Abraham’s youngest brother, Haran ... is due west of Sumerian Ur, it makes no geographic sense that Terah and his family would travel 550 miles out of their way ...

This remote corner of Turkey is also the area from which Abraham, the common patriarch for Jews, Christians and Muslims, allegedly set off on his epic journey ... city of Ur, or Ur Kasdim?

The Bible explicitly says that Abraham came from Ur of the Chaldees — to distinguish it from the other Ur — and that his journey to Canaan took him through Haran, which is in what today is ...