Ur Kasdim also known as Ur of the Chaldees is a biblical placementioned in the Book of Genesis that refers to a location that thePatriarch Abraham may have been from. Not only is there much debatein interpreting Ur Kasdim as Abraham’s birthplace, but alsoidentifying this location. In 1927 Leonard Woolley identified UrKasdim with the Sumerian city of Ur, in southern Mesopotamia orsouthern Iraq.

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