I. Name
It has been speculated that the city of Nahor (Gen. 24.10) was named after a deity Nahor. Nahor the grandfather of Abraham (Gen. 11.22–25; Josh. 24.2) and Nahor the brother of Abraham (Gen. 11.26–29; Gen. 22.20–24; Gen. 24.15, Gen. 24, Gen. 47; Gen. 29.5; Gen. 31.53) would have been named after the city of Nahor, and thus, indirectly, after the god of that name (Lewy 1934).
II. Identity
There is no extra-biblical evidence whatsoever attesting to the cult of a god Nahor. Lewy’s argument is ba…