Editing Arpachshad (section)

==Identifications==
Some ancient Jewish sources, particularly Jubilees, point to Arpachshad as the immediate progenitor of Ura and Kesed, who allegedly founded the city of ''[[Ur of the Chaldees|Ur Kasdim]]'' (Ur of the Chaldees) on the west bank of the [[Euphrates]] (Jubilees 9:4; 11:1–7) – the same bank where [[Ur]], identified by [[Leonard Woolley]] in 1927 as Ur of the Chaldees, is located.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Millard|first=Alan R.|url=http://fontes.lstc.edu/~rklein/Documents/Ur.htm|journal=[[Biblical Archaeology Review]]|date=May–June 2001|title=Where Was Abraham's Ur?|access-date=2008-01-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190201212830/http://fontes.lstc.edu/~rklein/Documents/Ur.htm|archive-date=2019-02-01|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Until Woolley's identification of Ur, Arpachshad was understood by many Jewish and Muslim scholars to be an area in northern [[Mesopotamia]]. This led to the identification of Arpachshad with [[Urfa|Urfa-Kasid]] (due to similarities in the names {{Script/Hebrew|ארפ־כשד}} and {{Script/Hebrew|כשדים}}) – a land associated with the [[Chalybes|Khaldis]], whom [[Josephus]] confused with the [[Chaldea]]ns. Donald B. Redford asserted that Arpachshad is to be identified with [[Babylon]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Redford|first=Donald B.|title=Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gkN9QgAACAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Princeton UP|isbn=9780691000862|page=405}}</ref>