While Christianity and Islam were spreading everywhere else, the city kept worshipping (the moon god) for over
1,500 years after most people forgot these gods existed. The locals were called Sabians.
The Lunar Cult of the Temples older than the Temple that they forgot its Name.
Archaeological evidence from the Harran Plain, particularly from sites like Göbekli Tepe though slightly further north,
indicates that the area was forested and rich in wildlife during the early Holocene.
The point of Deuteronomy 32:8-9 is not merely that God created seventy territorial units after Babel.
According to Deuteronomy 4:19 this "giving up" of the nations was a punitive act.
Rather than electing them to a special relationship to Himself, God gave these nations up to the idolatry (of which
Babel was symptomatic) in which they willfully persisted. Seeing these two passages together demonstrates this relationship. "And
beware lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be
drawn away and worship them and serve them...
The name of the moongod was Šah(a)r among the Aramaeans.
It comes from the Dead Sea Scrolls.
thread: Su'en
https://drmsh.com/TheNakedBible/Where%2 ... s%20Ur.pdf
In fact, this evidence and clue was given in the Bible (Nehemiah 2:10,13; 13:28).
In Hebrew the name is Sanballat (Hebrew: סַנְבַלָּט). Eberhard Schrader, cited in Brown–Driver–Briggs,
considered that the name in Akkadian was Sīnuballit, from the name of the Sumerian moon god Sīn meaning “Sīn has begotten.”
It must be emphasized that this identification of Dumuzi with Alla is not made by university scholars, but by the ancient Sumerians themselves. In the following text which gives Alla as another Tammuz, amongst others, it reads:
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Ninazu! Alas the lad, my lad, my Damu! Alas the lad, the child Ningishzida! Alas the lad, Alla, owner of the net!…
The shepherd, lord Dumuzi, bridegroom of Inanna.
In the Desert by the Early Grass, in Thorkild Jacobsen, The Harps that Once, part i, p. 61, Ellipses mine
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https://shoebat.com/2014/09/16/new-arch ... nce-allah/