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and Lord, God and Father - but these styles are all
titular; they are not personal names. So who
precisely were they?
after 2000 BC, and although the city was rebuilt, the
power centre moved north to Haran in the kingdom
of Mari. But Haran was not just the name of a
flourishing city, it was the name of Abraham's
brother (the father of Lot). Documents discovered in
1934 also reveal that other cities in Mesopotamia
were similarly named in accordance with Abraham's
forebears - cities such as Terah (Abraham's father),
Nahor (Terah's father), Serug (Nahor's father), and
Peleg (Serug's grandfather).