|
Home THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
|
In the 1920s, an English archaeologist, Leonard Woolley, began digs at Ur,
the village where Abraham originated. [?]
A number of clues appear to be quite conclusive.
William Albright, a U.S. scholar,
believed that he had identified the historical framework for the Patriarch's story.
He claimed that a vast migration, that of the Ammorites,
a nomadic people from Mesopotamia
led to the destruction of urban culture in the Levant around 2,000 B.C.
|
