Khaldis - Khaldis The Khaldis was a conglomeration of at least 79 different gods known to the Urartuans and Hurrians. The inscription of Argistis near Lake Van states: "This is the spoil of the cities which I obtained for the people of the Khaldis its one year... To Khaldis, the giver, to the Khaldises. the supreme givers, she children of Khaldis the mighty....." From this we can derive that The Pantheon -the khaldis- may also refer to a sphere of religion or cultural influence of a particular way of life the people of the area followed. This Pantheon was the traditional religion in the area Abram hailed from Ur-Of-The-Khaldis and it is likely it may have had some influence on his theology. Moreover it seems from the inscription.
Urfa - is a city in south eastern Turkey identified as the original Ur of the Khaldis mentioned in Genesis where Abram was born. To the Arabs it was known as Ar-Ruha and to the Greeks it was Orra. See also: Edessa.
Abraham - in the Genesis, beginning in Chapter 11, at the close of a genealogy of the sons of Shem (which includes among its members Eber, the eponym of the Hebrews). His father Terah is said to have come from Ur of the Khaldis in Mesopotamia commonly confused with Babel of the much later Chaldeans. He migrated to Haran, apparently the classical Carrhae, on a branch of the Habor. Thence, after a short stay, Abram with his wife Sarai, and Lot the son of Abram's brother Haran, and all their followers, departed for Canaan. According to the account, Yahweh called Abram to go to "the land I will show you", and promised to bless Abram and make him (though hitherto childless) a great nation. Based on this, Abram journeyed down to Shechem, and.
