Has the Garden of Eden been located at last?

The Smithsonian ^ | May 1987 | Dora Jane Hamblin

[Junior]

The move from hunter-gatherer to agricultural society was not an overnight, all-or-nothing thing. It was a gradual process with the two groups co-existing for thousands of years.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks, got to read later!

[ErnBatavia]

Oh, Oh. What if there is a hemp patch in the Garden?

The first Libertarians??

[APBaer]

"The first Libertarians??"

Unless, *HE* planted it?

[dpa5923]

Self ping for later read

[proud American in Canada]

bump

[CJ Wolf]

"An oldie, but a goodie." Agree with you there, but why put it under news/current events?

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thus the Garden of Eden, on the geographical evidence, must have been somewhere at the head of the Gulf at a time when all four rivers joined and flowed through an area that was then above the level of the Gulf. The wording in Genesis that Eden's river came into four heads" was dealt with by Biblical scholar Ephraim Speiser some years ago: the passage, he said, refers to the four rivers upstream of their confluence into the one river watering the Garden. This is a strange perspective, but understandable if one reflects that the description is of a folk memory, written millennia after the events encapsulated, by men who had never been within leagues of the territory.

According to Genesis 2:8-14 "A river watering the garden flowed from Eden, and from there it divided. It had four headstreams. The name of the first is the Pishon. It winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there. The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush. The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates."

However, Adam and Eve were prevented from going back to paradise as is stated in Genesis 3:24, "So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life."

The Tigris and the Euphrates are in Iraq. After the Iraq situation is over, I would love to visit paradise, wanna come?

[Sabertooth]

The Tigris and the Euphrates are in Iraq. After the Iraq situation is over, I would love to visit paradise, wanna come?

Heck yeah! Sounds like a great riverboat cruise.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Yeah, it'll be fun. ;-)

[Sabertooth]

why put it under news/current events?

Well, we're in Iraq and Kuwait, and I saw this article today...

SADDAM DRAINED THE GARDEN OF EDEN

[FrogMom]

Bump for later.

[janetgreen]

Interesting reading. Makes me wish that I had access to a time machine!

[SkyPilot]

Saber,

Thanks for this..been away and checking my pings...this is a keeper.

[princess leah]

Sounds like the name of a new waterfront resort in Bagdad "Garden of Eden Resort & SPA" calling Marriott!

[Nogbad]

bump

[SunkenCiv]

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[BlackVeil]

Some people say that the tradition of the garden, which is guarded by angels with flaming swords, is because of the green delta in southern Iraq. There are natural petroleum wells near the surface, which sometimes burst into flames.