Word: ur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ur construction staff concluded that there were substantial risks of incurring significant cost overruns during construction. Already, one of the architects is asking for an additional $100,000 in fees, more expensive bricks seen necessary, and added costs would probably be required to provide a truly adequate security system...
...ur construction staff concluded that there were substantial risks of incurring significant cost overruns during construction. Already, one of the architects is asking for an additional $100,000 in fees, more expensive bricks seem necessary, and added costs would probably be required to provide a truly adequate security system...
Pettinato was more certain. He proposed that Abraham was a native of northern Syria. An intriguing Ebla text shows a town named Ur near Haran, the biblical town in Syria from which Abraham moved into the promised land. Genesis, however, says that Abraham grew up in "Ur of the Chaldees," understood by both the biblical and Islamic traditions to be the famous Ur in lower Mesopotamia. Ebla aside, the Israelites were instructed in Deuteronomy 26: 5 to recite that Abraham was "a wandering Aramaean." In other words, the Bible labeled him a Syrian...
...seriously depleted commodity, oral history. Tales passed on through the centuries by word of mouth tell much more than their plots. In their diversity, they suggest the variety of dreams, the possible mutations of consciousness and climates. Their frequent similarities point teasingly in the opposite direction, toward some Ur tale that generated all the others, a narrative vast and potent enough to enclose the world. Writes Calvino: "Taken all together, they offer, in their oft-repeated and constantly varying examinations of human vicissitudes, a general explanation of life preserved in the slow ripening of rustic consciences...