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Arpachshad's son is called Shelah , except in the Septuagint , where his son is Cainan (קינן), Shelah being Arpachshad's grandson. BOOK OF JUBILEES More ancient Jewish sources, particularly the Book Of Jubilees , point to Arpachsad as the immediate progenitor of Ura and Kesed , who allegedly founded the city of ''Ur Kesdim'' on the south bank of the Euphrates , in the same approximate location where Woolley subsequently identified it. LINKS WITH CERTAIN SITES Donald B. Redford ''Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times'', p. 405 has asserted that Arpachsad is to be identified with Babylon . Until the identification of a site in southern Iraq as Ur of the Chaldees by Sir Charles Woolley in 1927 , Arpachshad was understood by mainly Jew ish scholars to be an area in northern Mesopotamia . This led to the identification of Arpachshad with Urfa-Kasid (due to similarities in the names ארפ־כשד and '''כשדים''') - a land associated with the Khaldis , whom Josephus confused with the Chaldean s (and possibly the Kasidim mentioned in Daniel ). REFERENCES SEE ALSO Ur_Kasdim '' |
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