PART III 1 Abraham and the Kingdom of Ugarit

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 Abraham and the Kingdom of Ugarit

  Ugarit WAS KNOWN AS
northern Ur

  ABRAHAMs fourth-great-grandfather Eber was king of Ugarit in Syria, as was his grandfather Nahor, Abraham was but a prince at the time of the death of Sarah

 ugarit was a major trading center on the Syrian coast

city of "Ur" was indeed the city of Ugarit.

The Hittite kings sponsored merchants plying their trade in Canaan. Documents of Hattusili III (ca. 1282–1250 B.C.) have been found at Ugarit, regulating the activities of his merchants there. Complaints had been lodged against the merchants for their undue exploitation of Ugarit. Accordingly, Hattusili forbade his merchants to acquire Ugaritic real-estate, or to remain in Ugarit throughout the year.

Abraham was the commander of his own company of troops, augmented by those of his Amorite allies. Moreover, he is successful in overtaking and defeating a coalition of invading kings. , Abraham is called a "Hebrew." 

 Pharaoh Thutmosis I, the third king of the 18th Dynasty and the New Kingdom, who ruled for 8 years beginning in 1505, the year before Abraham entered Egypt, and was then replaced by Thutmosis II. Josephus has the following in the same regard:

Age of Abraham	Event	Year BC
	Hyksos conquer Lower Egypt1	1718
	Tree ring event	1628
	Birth of Nahor ben Serug (Niqmepa II2)	1595
	Ya'dur-Addu becomes king of Ugarit	1584
	Birth of Terah	1580
	Peleg dies at age 69	1572
	Reu dies at age 69	1556
	Nahor ben Serug dies at age 39. Ibiranu II becomes king of Ugarit	1555
	13th Dynasty ends. 18th Dynasty begins at Thebes	1549
	Birth of Nahor ben Terah (Niqmepa III)
	Abram, father of Edna (wife of Terah), dies	ca 1546
0	Birth of Abraham at "Ur"	1545
1	Serug dies at age 66	1543
5	Birth of Sarah	1540
	Haran dies at "Ur" in presence of Terah
	Terah leaves "Ur"
	Ahmose defeats Hyksos at Avaris (Tell el-Daba). Hyksos retreat to Sharuhen in southern Canaan	1534
14	Ahmose defeats Hyksos at Sharuhen	1531
19	Typhon approaches earth	1526
	Puzur-Asshur becomes king of Assyria3	ca 1513
33	Terah dies in city of Harran at age 68	1512
34	Chedorlaomer begins 6-year rule of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Zoar	1511
37	Abraham leaves Harran at age 37, enters Canaan under Assyrian domination	1508
40	Amenhotep dies. Chebron becomes king of Egypt as Thutmosis I	1505
41	Famine begins. Abraham enters Egypt, marries Sarah, sister of Thutmosis I. 518-year 16th Dynasty of Africanus begins. Plagues occur. 5 kings of the plain rebel.  4 generals of Puzur-Asshur—Amraphel (’Ammurapi I of Ugarit), Arioch of "Ellasar" (Assyria), Chedorlaomer of "Elam," and Tidal (Tergal [Jubilees]) of the "Goiim" (Hittites?)—defeat 5 kings, capture Lot. Abraham, in command of Egyptian land forces, defeats Chedorlaomer, freeing Ugarit from Assyrian domination, rescues Lot. Amraphel dies. Abraham meets Melchizedek, king of Salem (Salim/Shechem). Nahor ben Terah (Niqmepa III) becomes king of Ugarit	1504
41	Abraham returns to Egypt, teaches astronomy at Heliopolis [Polyhistor]. Destruction of Sodom. Sarah gives Hagar to Abraham	1503
43	Birth of Ishmael	1502
50	Birth of Isaac (Mempsasthenoth [Artapanus])	1495
53	Thutmosis II becomes king of Egypt	1492
	Enlil-nasir I becomes king of Assyria	ca 1489
61	Thutmosis III becomes king of Egypt with Hatshepsut as regent.	1484
62	Hatshepsut seizes the throne. Abraham leaves Egypt, attempts to sacrifice Isaac	1483
68	Sarah dies	1477
70	Isaac marries Rebekah at age 20. Abraham marries Keturah, becomes king of Ugarit as Ibiranu III	1475
80	Birth of Jacob (Yaqaru) and Esau, fraternal twins	1465
	Hatshepsut dies. Thutmosis III becomes sole king of Egypt.	1462
87	Abraham dies at age 87. Niqmepa IV becomes king of Ugarit	1458
	Esau marries Judith and Basemath, Hittites, at age 20. Jacob leaves for Harran	1445
	Jacob marries Leah	ca 1442
	Jacob marries Rachel	ca 1438
	Ishmael dies at age 68	1434
	Thutmosis III dies. Amenhotep II becomes king of Egypt	1430
	Birth of Joseph to Rachel. Jacob leaves Harran	1420
	Jacob becomes king of Ugarit
	Isaac dies at age 90	1405
	Jacob loses throne of Ugarit (due to famine?), enters Egypt	1400
	Jacob dies at age 73	1392
	18th Dynasty ends	1301
1Red: Egypt.  2Green: Syria.  3Bold: Assyria.