Erech
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- This article is about the city mentioned in the Bible. For the fictional location in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, see Erech (Middle-earth).
Erech (Hebrew name ארך, meaning 'to extract', 'draw out', or 'long') according to the Book of Genesis, was an ancient city in the land of Shinar, the second city built by king Nimrod.
While earlier scholars such as Jerome (4th century) had identified Erech with the Syrian city of Edessa (now within Turkey), the modern consensus is that it refers to the Sumerian city-state of Uruk, in south Mesopotamia.[1]
- ^ Warwick Ball, 2001, Rome in the East: the transformation of an empire, p. 89. Ball further speculates that the earlier traditions connecting Edessa (Orhai) with Erech might have arisen because the ancient Uruk was possibly 'transferred' to the more northerly location in the reign of Nabonidus of Babylon, 6th century BC.
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