Thanks NYer.
Melchizedek was also the ruler of Salem, hence his name, which means king of righteousness.No, the literal translation of his name is "Zedek Is My King" -- Zedek was his deity, the planet Jupiter, which was worshipped as Sydyk by the Phoenicians.
To account for the permanent loss of the site of the Garden of Eden, the Great Flood (which *quite mysteriously* isn't listed as one of the mysteries) would have to occurred in such a way that the flooded region has remained flooded. IOW, the continental shelf, where almost everyone around at that time was living when the interior was stacked up miles deep in ice, over ten thousand years ago, wound up covered by the rising sealevel. If it wasn't the melted ice, then water came from outside the Earth and did that same job.
The Lost Tribes were marched off by the Assyrians to various different distant corners of their empire; we know this because of the dozens of Ashoka's pillars, which are inscribed with the same message but in what was then the local tongue, at least three -- in modern Afghanistan -- are inscribed in Aramaic. The dating precludes any other explanation. And the Ashkenazy Jews -- all Jews of European descent -- came from eastern Europe, and the genetic traces of their Hebrew roots are still there.
The giants in the Earth reference is for fossil remains of extinct animals; the other references to giants include the iron bedstead of Og of Bashan, last of the Rephaim, who were called as tall as the Anakim (giants), and of course the slaying of the giant Goliath by David.
Mystery: Exodus 4:24-26 (PDF)One of *those* topics, besides.
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