it never existed.
2007-08-01 20:04:55
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answered by jim 3
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Well, your question is most likely posed to elicit some of the answers you have here.
I also enjoy reading answers, no matter how misguided and given with such authority while being completely ridiculous.
I really liked the one saying that the “garden” was probably destroyed by Noah’s flood. lol
I think that if you, or any of us, lived in the desert and had some experience of life near a large river, you too might fantasize about such an atmosphere.
I assume the original biblical writer, the one author whose book is most likely the origin of the modern bible (Old Testament or Torah, one of the three books of the Tanach) and the other two, is the creator of the elegant story.
I have imagined that if the story were based on actual human history rather than what apparently was a novel, written about 950 BCE, later redacted and added to, changed to meet the times while eventually being morphed into a world renowned religious missive,
the garden would have been a little piece of property owned by some wealthy trader just outside the then main city between the Tigris and Euphrates near that area more recently inhabited by the Marsh Arabs.
Possibly the owner intended to build a lake or river house there but had done nothing with it when a couple of eccentrics, ( today we would call them “crazies), squatted on the property and indulged themselves in their schizophrenia but with the presents of mind to convince a scribe to observe them and write a story.
Sadly, however, we must give the credit for the story to the original author, (most likely a female), and not elevate her story to historical fact.
Jim D
2007-08-02 02:01:52
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answered by Anonymous
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The exact location is unknown however we know that a river flowed out of the Garden of Eden and became four rivers. Their names are:
Pishon
Gihon
Tigris
Euphrates
The last two rivers are known to us today. So that puts the garden in the vicinity of present day Iraq or possibly Turkey.
There is no trace of the garden today. It was probably destroyed in the worldwide flood in Noah's day.
2007-08-01 23:00:04
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answered by Northstar 7
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It may have been in western Iran or southern Iraq, or maybe in what is today the Gulf, flooded when the glaciers melted at the end of the Ice Age.
Unfortunately, Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel are deceased.
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2007-08-01 20:40:59
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answered by Anonymous
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It is rumoured to be in modern day Basra Iran.
I've also found other sources that point to this area were humans first took up astronomy.farming and monetary value
2007-08-04 06:25:34
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answered by Spsipath 4
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somewhere around Baghdad but its gone now.
2007-08-01 20:09:10
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answered by Change of Venue (Not In Use) 5
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