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2006-06-20 08:23:09 · 17 answers · asked by JOHN B 2 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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Biblical tradition states that the garden of eden is between the tigiris and wuphraties rivers in present day iraq

2006-06-20 08:26:27 · answer #1 · answered by Aaron G 2 · 2 0

Location of Eden. The original site of the garden of Eden is conjectural. The principal means of identifying its geographic location is the Bible’s description of the river “issuing out of Eden,” which thereafter divided into four “heads,” producing the rivers named as the Euphrates, Hiddekel, Pishon, and Gihon. (Gen. 2:10-14) The Euphrates (Heb., Perath′) is well known, and “Hiddekel” is the name used for the Tigris in ancient inscriptions. The other two rivers, the Pishon and the Gihon, however, are unidentified.—See CUSH No. 2; HAVILAH No. 1.
Some, such as Calvin and Delitzsch, have argued in favor of Eden’s situation somewhere near the head of the Persian Gulf in Lower Mesopotamia, approximately at the place where the Tigris and the Euphrates draw near together. They associated the Pishon and Gihon with canals between these streams. However, this would make these rivers tributaries, rather than branches dividing off from an original source. The Hebrew text points, rather, to a location in the mountainous region north of the Mesopotamian plains, the area where the Euphrates and Tigris rivers have their present sources. Thus The Anchor Bible (1964), in its notes on Genesis 2:10, states: “In Heb.[rew] the mouth of the river is called ‘end’ (Josh xv 5, xviii 19); hence the plural of ro’s ‘head’ must refer here to the upper course. . . . This latter usage is well attested for the Akk[adian] cognate.” The fact that the Euphrates and Tigris rivers do not now proceed from a single source, as well as the impossibility of definitely determining the identification of the Pishon and Gihon rivers, is possibly explained by the effects of the Noachian Flood, which undoubtedly altered considerably the topographical features of the earth, filling in the courses of some rivers and creating others.
The traditional location for the garden of Eden has long been suggested to have been a mountainous area some 225 kilometers (140 miles) SW of Mount Ararat and a few kilometers South of Lake Van, in the eastern part of modern Turkey. That Eden may have been surrounded by some natural barrier, such as mountains, could be suggested by the fact that cherubs are stated to have been stationed only at the E of the garden, from which point Adam and Eve made their exit.—Gen. 3:24.

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2006-06-20 15:39:19 · answer #2 · answered by Jeremy Callahan 4 · 0 0

The Bible says regarding the location of Eden:

"And a river went out of Eden, to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads."
-Genesis 2:10

Two of these rivers are called Hiddekel and Perath. (See: Genesis 2:10-14)

This is why many Christians have assumed that the original garden was located somewhere in the Mesopotamian region (around present day Iraq) where the modern Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow.

2006-06-20 15:28:13 · answer #3 · answered by parsonsel 6 · 0 0

The Garden of Eden (where Adam and Eve lived until God cast them out) was located in present-day Iraq, roughly where the Tigris and Euphrates (two of the four rivers flowing from it in Genesis) meet.

2006-06-20 15:29:00 · answer #4 · answered by ensign183 5 · 0 0

Eve was Adam's wife.

I'll assume you meant "Garden of Eden".

Genesis 2:10-15 are the verses in the Bible.

The theories about where it is located

The Euphrates flows thru central Iraq.

The Tigris flows thru central Iraq.

The Gihon, which encircles the land of Cush.
One perspective puts this as being the Nile. (Jehosephus)
A second one places it as being either the Indus or Ganges river, in India;
A third one claims that it no longer exists, being destroyed by the flood;
A fourth one puts it as being the Karun River in Iran;
A fifth one claims that the remnants of it, can be found in the only natural spring in Jerusalem, which has the same name.
A sixth perspective claims that it is the river Arexis, in Turkey;

The Pishon, which encircles the land of Havilah where there is gold.
One perspective puts this as being the Indus River, in India;[Jehosephus]
A second perspective places this as being the Ganges River, in India;
A third perspective claims it is the Murt River, in Turkey;
A fourth perspective is that it is the Wadi Badi river system in Saudi Arabia;
A fifth perspective claims that it is one of the rivers that flows in the Caspian Sea, from Iraq.

Those sort of identifies it, in terms of Genesis.

What is really needed here, are half dozen maps.
The geographical area covered is:
* The arc of land from the Indian subcontinent thru to the Horn of Africa. [This was the theory of Jehosephus.]
*From The Tigras river in Iraq, to the Sicily in the Mediteranean. [ I didn't give the "loctions" of the rivers for this one. The theory is the between the flood, and vrious volcanoes, they sunk into the Mediteranean. This is explained in _The Book of Urantia_ ]
* Missouri, USA. [Ask a member of the Church of Jesus christ of Latter Day saints to explain this one. ]
* The Current Persian Gulf ;
The mountains of Turkey/Iraq;
* Central Babylonia (Currently called Iraq)
* From the Tigras river to the current Meditarean coast;

2006-06-20 17:55:46 · answer #5 · answered by jblake80856 3 · 0 0

If you mean "The Garden of Eden," it's an allegorical place, not a real place.

You can tell this by the description of its location in Genesis. It is described as being at a conflux of four rivers. These four rivers, however, do not intersect in the real world.

2006-06-20 15:26:44 · answer #6 · answered by grammartroll 4 · 0 0

Southern Iraq is always a popular choice for the location of Eden.

2006-06-20 15:26:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Its Garden of Eden..
Eve was the first female!

2006-06-20 15:26:18 · answer #8 · answered by Whiskeytangofoxtrot 4 · 0 0

In the land of the Mesopotamians. No really, over by the Tigris river and the other ones (I forget their names) There's supposedly clues that narrow it down to the Mesopotamian region.

2006-06-20 15:39:42 · answer #9 · answered by Joe Shmoe 4 · 0 0

some think at the top of the mount of olives. no one knows though.
given the flood that inundated the middle east and maybe the whole world any evidence of where it was would have been washed away. tigres, euphrates now are not where it would have been. it is impossible to say.
no one will ever know.

2006-06-20 15:38:04 · answer #10 · answered by Stuie 6 · 0 0

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