Abraham, Chaldean or Semite sojourning in Chaldea?
From Genesis 11:10-32, we know that Abraham was a direct y-Chromosomal descendant of Shem, one of the three sons of Noah. He nor his father Terah were simply 'Chaldeans'. In fact, there were likely no truly pure-breed Chaldean... in a similar way that there is no truly pure-American (all Americans are immigrants, including so-called "Native" Americans).
From Genesis 10:32-11:1, we also know that most all of mankind moved to the region of Chaldea at some point after the Great Flood. Then their common language was divided during the Tower of Babel episode.
Terah was either from one of the Semite clans that stayed in Chaldea after the language divisions or he moved his family back to Chaldea for some other reason at some later time. We simply do not know from the Torah what reason or purpose Terah's family started there.
When Abraham received his call from the Creator to depart the household of his father, they were no longer living in Ur of the Chaldeans. They were living in a region named Haran quite a distance away in what is now southeast Turkey (Genesis 12:1-4).
Important Questions
Is the y-Chromosome of Abraham of little importance? If it is not of any importance, why so much attention given the direct paternal ancestry of Yeshua, connecting to Abraham and to Shem (Matthew 1:1-17; Luke 3:34-36)? Though the precise reason so much attention is given to Abraham may be unknown, there is obviously some significance even if the reason isn't immediately apparent to all now. However, should we diminish or belittle something that is given so much textual real estate within the Scriptures? Or should we ponder, question, and search this out?
Pondering the adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine of Abraham's goyim!
Hanok ben-Isaak
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July 25th, 2010 - 05:17
Good article. In fact, I wrote too about Abraham few days ago in my blog regarding the general biblical theme about “leaving Babylon and crossing over the river” and what kind of message it is every believer.
I think that Abraham was Chaldean in a national way as every person who lived in Chaldea. Of course he had Semitic genes. Being Finnish doesnt mean that Finns cannot be Hebrews because being Finnish is about commonly agreieed Finnish nationality after all.
July 25th, 2010 - 06:18
I get the impression from Gen.10 that the Chaldeans were Semites as well, from Arphaxad’s brothers. I could be seeing it wrongly, though. It looks like the Semites went south and east from Ararat, while the Japhetites went west and the Hamites went south and west. Of course, these would be generalities, as the only people Yah follows in detail are the Messianic lines.