February 23, 2001 • Page Image 57
…You'll fincrAbraham not in the soil of Ur iut ANGELA HIMSEL Special to the Jewish News t the turn of the century, archaeol- ogist Leonard Woolley spent 12 years excavating the city of Ur, located in modern-day Iraq and presumed by many to be the Ur referred to in the Bible as Abraham's homeland. The wealth and sophistication of the objects from Ur on display through May at the Detroit Institute of Arts beg the'question: Why did Abraham, wit...…

















































