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The World of the Patriarchs

Genesis 11–50 · c. 2000–1650 BC

    The World of the PatriarchsGenesis 11–50 · c. 2000–1650 BC. The line is the arc of the patriarchal migration rather than one man’s journey: Terah out of Ur to Haran, Abram from Haran into Canaan, and Jacob’s household down into Goshen. Sites whose location is disputed — the cities of the plain, Nahor, Pithom — are left off rather than guessed at; Zoan stands for the Egyptian capital of Joseph’s day, which the ruins do not yet settle. The numbered discs give the order of the migration. Babel, Mari and Damascus are unnumbered, lying on the road rather than being stops Genesis records, and Bethel and Hebron because four numerals cannot stand in the hill country at this scale. Mt Hermon Mt Carmel Mt Sinai TIGRIS NILE JORDAN EUPHRATES ULAI MAEANDER LEBANON TAURUS NILE DELTA SYRIAN DESERT SHINAR ELAM ASSYRIA PADDAN-ARAM ARAM HATTI KITTIM CANAAN GILEAD AMMON MOAB EDOM THE NEGEB GOSHEN EGYPT SINAI MIDIAN ARABIA THE GREAT SEA SALT SEA Ur Haran Shechem Bethel Hebron Beersheba Zoan Damascus Babel Mari Nineveh Asshur Calah Erech Carchemish Ebla Ugarit Gebal Sidon Tyre Hazor Laish Megiddo Dothan Penuel Salem Ephrath Gerar Gaza Kadesh-barnea On Memphis TerahGenesis 11:31AbramGenesis 12JacobGenesis 46Start and finishHighlandStippled ground is desert 50050100150MILES 1 2 3 4 5

    The World of the Patriarchs

    Genesis 11–50 · c. 2000–1650 BC

    The line is the arc of the patriarchal migration rather than one man’s journey: Terah out of Ur to Haran, Abram from Haran into Canaan, and Jacob’s household down into Goshen. Sites whose location is disputed — the cities of the plain, Nahor, Pithom — are left off rather than guessed at; Zoan stands for the Egyptian capital of Joseph’s day, which the ruins do not yet settle. The numbered discs give the order of the migration. Babel, Mari and Damascus are unnumbered, lying on the road rather than being stops Genesis records, and Bethel and Hebron because four numerals cannot stand in the hill country at this scale.

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