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The first one’s name is Pi´shon; it is the one encircling the entire land of Hav´i·lah, where there is gold. 12 And the gold of that land is good. There also are the bdellium gum and the onyx stone. 13 And the name of the second river is Gi´hon; it is the one encircling the entire land of Cush. 14 And the name of the third river is Hid´de·kel; it is the one going to the east of As·syr´i·a. And the fourth river is the Eu·phra´tes

2006-06-25 06:46:56 · 11 answers · asked by danlaws 1 in Arts & Humanities History

11 answers

Who knows, maybe it never existed. They are making a new one in cornwall, England, it is called "The eden project", its really good, check it out.

2006-06-25 06:51:18 · answer #1 · answered by True_Brit 3 · 0 1

Usually i type up an orginal response to questions like these

But today, i am just not feeling it.

There have been a number of claims as to the actual geographic location of the Garden of Eden, though many of these have little or no connection to the text of Genesis. Most put the Garden somewhere in the Middle East near Mesopotamia. Locations as diverse as Ethiopia, Java, Sri Lanka, the Seychelles, Brabant, and Bristol, Florida have all been proposed as locations for the garden. Some Christian theologians believe that the Garden never had a terrestrial existence, but was instead an adjunct to heaven as it became identified with Paradise (see below).

The text asserts that from Eden the river divided into four branches: Hiddekel a.k.a. Tigris, Euphrates, Pishon and Gihon. The identity of the former two are commonly accepted, though the latter two rivers have been the subject of endless argument. But if the Garden of Eden had really been near the sources of the Tigris and the Euphrates, then the original narrators in the land of Canaan would have identified it as located generally in the Taurus Mountains, in Anatolia. Satellite photos reveal two dry riverbeds flowing toward the Persian Gulf near where the Tigris and Euphrates also terminate. While this accounts for four rivers in the vicinity, that area is the mouth of those rivers rather than their source.

Some literalists point out that the world of Eden's time was destroyed during Noah's Flood and it is therefore impossible to place the Garden anywhere in post-flood geography. There is also an attempt to tie this with the mystical sunken land of Atlantis. One favourite location is Sundaland in the South China Sea. In this case the current Tigris and Euphrates rivers would not be the ones referred to in the narrative, but later rivers named after two of the earlier rivers, just as in more modern times colonists would name features of their new land after similar features in their homeland. This idea also resolves the apparent problem that the Bible describes the rivers as having a common source, which the current rivers do not.

One recent claim by archaeologist David Rohl puts the garden in the north-western Iran. According to him, the Garden is a river valley east of the Sahand Mountain, near Tabriz. He cites several geological similarities with Biblical descriptions, and multiple linguistic parallels as evidence. The Medians lived in this area before founding the Persian Empire.

The Urantia Book (1955) places the Garden of Eden in a long narrow peninsula projecting westward from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean and having been long ago submerged in connection with volcanic activity and the submergence of a Sicilian land bridge to Africa, features unidentified by geologists.


But that will do all the same
and prolably any answer i could give you off the top of my head

btw
if i rememeber correctly
the History Channel
a couple of years ago
Did a special on
Where Eden is located

So you might want to do some searching in and about on
the History Channels website for more information
or maybe they did it on the discovery channel

hmmm...
anyhow
i hope that helped

2006-06-25 07:31:09 · answer #2 · answered by beachbum040489 2 · 0 0

May would say Iraq, but there are some who would point to Dubai as the original Garden of Eden.

2006-06-25 11:33:29 · answer #3 · answered by icehoundxx 6 · 0 0

Iraq

2006-06-25 06:50:35 · answer #4 · answered by AugustMan 3 · 0 0

modern day Iraq/between the two rivers of the Tigris and the Euphtates, a lot have speculated

2006-06-25 07:33:00 · answer #5 · answered by XsylviaO 2 · 0 0

Eastern Turkey and Iraq. It was said to be located in the Tigris and Euphrates Basin.

2006-06-25 07:00:48 · answer #6 · answered by anonymous 6 · 0 0

according to the description in the bible, the garden was located what is present day Iraq

2006-06-25 16:01:02 · answer #7 · answered by Slim Dogg 3 · 0 0

That would be Iraq or Syria, i believe. Kinda ironic, dontcha think?

2006-06-25 06:51:54 · answer #8 · answered by St. Dave 5 · 0 0

it is believed to be in modern day Iraq or in Iraq's general area

2006-06-25 08:02:14 · answer #9 · answered by icak9 1 · 0 0

Probably Turkey, but it could be Syria or Irak as well i guess.

2006-06-25 06:50:26 · answer #10 · answered by dirk_vermaelen 4 · 0 0

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