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nin-gnl).' The present writer's objection to thir other- form of the name in Creek is Tip6.w (Ionic), accurst. rdpbrr.
wise piausible view is that he regards 'Milcah' in Gen.
the Attic form is Xp6t.r; bznce the ~~tinl
1. Qeography s=&* or s~~d;~; the latu crwk form is
Ilzs. etc., as certainiy corrupt, and that (if we feel and history. f q r ar in Ptol. and on coins, r.g., PWrr
compelled to hold that there is only one Haran-viz. in
A~~~Au6i~r'EMdsorpnrpdnoh~r(ree Herd,
the north) the correctness of ' Haran' reemr to him to he 2i;ri. NU,,, 35,).
in the stories of the ~ntriarchs also ooen to suroicion Sardir lay at the foot of Mt. Tmoius (mod. Bos-do:h),
(see HARAN ii., MILCAH). If is true, Winckler is of on a spur of which its citadel was placed (Herod. 181).
opinion2 that the twofold relation of Abraham to Sarah It was an old city, perhaps the 1st western outpost of
as husband and brother is nndoubtediv of mvthoioeical that early non-Aryan empire (of the Hittites?) which
origin. Following Stucken, he regards the rdc of extended to Carchemish on the Euphrates. The valley
Abraham as analogous to that of Tammuz-Adonis in of the Hermus war the centre of a monarchr xhirh fur
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