Wandering shepherds
rarely pitch their tents, proverbial or not, next to metropolises.
Terah left Ur only to settle near yet another city, Harran, on the
current border between Turkey and Syria. He spent the next 60 years of
his life there. Harran is 1200 kilometers off the beaten path to
Canaan (today's Israel and Palestine). Why such a diversion?
Scholars suggest that Ur is actually Urfa in Turkey - about 30
kilometers away from Harran. It boasts a cave where Abraham is said to
have been born.
SOURCE: Bruce Feiler, Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths
and Walking the Bible: A Journey By Land Through the Five Books of
Moses.
http://www.ot-studies.com/Documents/Ur.htm
http://members.aol.com/mfuprojects/abrahambirth.html
Ants
There are 11,000 species of ants. The oldest ant fossil is more than
90 million years old. Ants are closely related to bees and wasps. They
are so numerous that in some habitats - the Amazon forest, for
instance - their combined weight is four times the combined weight of
all other animals in the area. Ants have brains. The main nerve -
similar to our spine - runs along the bottom of the ant's body.
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