2/12/2024 0 Comments Bible map of middle east![]() But they stopped instead at the village of Haran and settled there.ģ2 Terah lived for 205 years and died while still at Haran. I will add different figures to the borders of each map, adding characters that relate to the map subject.Ĭlick orange bar below to see the Bible Cartoon of Abram and Sarai leaving Haran, on the BC Gallery page, with download & purchase options:īible Cartoon: Genesis 12 – Call of Abram – Scene 01 – Leaving Haranģ1 Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai, and his grandson Lot (his son Haran’s child) and left Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. ![]() If you look carefully at the map border you will see I have included some little black and white figures. Notice the figures on the border of the map. At Haran the Assyrians made their last stand (609 B.C.), and three years later the city fell to the Medes, who destroyed it and drove the Assyrians back across the Euphrates.Īccording to The Chronological Life Application Study Bible the migration of Terah and his family (Abram, Sarai, Lot, etc) from Ur to Haran occurred around 2000 B.C. The city of Haran remained an important trading centre through many centuries. Of course Jacob himself spent twenty years in Haran and most of his children were born there as well. The first part of the journey involved Terah (Abram’s father. The red arrowed lines show the route he took. Genesis 29 records that Jacob’s wife’s Leah and Rachel also came from this region. This is my map of the Middle East, showing the route Abram took, going from Ur of the Chaldeans to Haran and then on to Canaan, into Egypt and finally back to Canaan again. Later in Genesis, Rebekah (Isaac’s wife) was brought from Nahor, a neighboring city of Haran (see Genesis 24). The city of Haran shouldn’t be confused with Haran, the brother of Abram and Nahor! The first reference to the city of Haran in the Bible is found in Genesis 11:31. Haran had easy access to both the Assyrian and Babylonian trade routes, but also to a north-running road that provided easy access to Asia Minor. It was located in Paddan-aram (“field of Aram”) built up on the busy caravan road connecting Nineveh, Asshur, and Babylon in Mesopotamia (East of Haran) with Mediterranean cities like Tyre, also Damascus and Egyptian cities in the South West of the Fertile Crescent. Judaism got its start here, and from it, Christianity developed a few thousand years later.Īlso known as Classical antiquity, the Classical Age refers to when the Greeks achieved new heights in art, architecture, literature, theater, and philosophy. This period expanded a new maturity in Greece that lasted for roughly 200 years.This is my map of the Middle East, showing the city of Haran (indicated by red arrow), which was an ancient northern Mesopotamian commercial city on the Balikh River. The Levant region called the Fertile Crescent saw some of the earliest use of domesticated plants and animals during the Neolithic period and some of the earliest urban sites arose here in Mesopotamia, what is today Iraq. The Levantine corridor-land which connects the continent of Africa to the Levant-was also the main pathway for modern humans to leave Africa, about 150,000 years ago. Stone tools were used to process plants and butcher animals for food. The earliest humans in the Levant made some of the earliest stone tools made by our human ancestors Homo erectus after they left Africa, at a handful of known sites in Israel, Syria, and Jordan some 1.7 million years ago. In antiquity, the southern part of the Levant or Palestine was called Canaan. The Levant is the eastern Mediterranean area now covered by Israel, Lebanon, part of Syria, and western Jordan. ![]() Like "Anatolia" or "Orient," "Levant" refers to the area of the rising of the sun, from the perspective of the western Mediterranean. Important cities include Jerusalem, Jericho, Petra, Beersheba, Rabbath-Ammon, Ashkelon, Tyre, and Damascus. The term is often used in reference to the ancient lands in the Old Testament of the Bible (Bronze Age): the kingdoms of Israel, Ammon, Moab, Judah, Edom, and Aram and the Phoenician and Philistine states. Rough boundaries are generally west of the Zagros mountains, south of the Taurus Mountains and north of the Sinai peninsula. Maps of the Levant don't show an absolute boundary, because at no time in the past was it a single political unit. "Levant" or "The Levant" is a geographic term that refers to the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the nearby islands.
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