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Abraham is an important figure in the religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. According to the Hebrew Bible, he is considered the patriarch and progenitor of the Israelite people. He was born in Ur, a city in ancient Mesopotamia, and is known for his covenant with God and his journey from Mesopotamia to the land of Canaan.
There were 289 laws in Mesopotamia. Set by King Hammurabi.
Mesopotamia was civilized by the sumerians, which had a religious belief of many gods. They had an important preist who was there ruler and had temples to worship there gods called ziggurates. There was no set religion when mesopotamia was found until the Jewish people founded judism with there belief in one god. The religion of the people in mesopotamia is polytheism.
He established the first set of laws called "Hammurabi's code"
Egypt, Phoenicia, Mesopotamia.
a code
Iraq use to be called Mesopotamia, it is also referred to this in the King James Bible.
Chebar (kē'bär) , in the Bible, river of Mesopotamia, by which captive Jews were settled.Answers.com
No discoveries in Mesopotamia prove that the Bible is an accurate historical book, otherwise modern scholars would have to regard it as such. Most modern scholars accept accounts in the Bible as historically true only so far as they are confirmed by extra-biblical sources. They see the Bible as true in parts, but not in total.
Abraham.
He needed a set of rules that all his people could obey
i don't know of any sites but try reading the bible!<3
because the crops failed
At church. Also, there are web sites where you can listen to the Bible spoken. See links below.
Abraham is an important figure in the religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. According to the Hebrew Bible, he is considered the patriarch and progenitor of the Israelite people. He was born in Ur, a city in ancient Mesopotamia, and is known for his covenant with God and his journey from Mesopotamia to the land of Canaan.
There were 289 laws in Mesopotamia. Set by King Hammurabi.