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2007-10-17 05:37:04 · 14 answers · asked by Omar 1 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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in my backyard

2007-10-17 05:40:17 · answer #1 · answered by krasnoglaz 3 · 0 1

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. (Ge 2:10-14) The Euphrates (Heb., Perath′) is well known, and “Hiddekel” is the name used for the Tigris in ancient inscriptions. (Compare also Da 10:4.) The other two rivers, the Pishon and the Gihon, however, are unidentified.

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 N 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 resu.” 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 km (140 mi) SW of Mount Ararat and a few kilometers S 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.—Ge 3:24.

2007-10-17 12:43:17 · answer #2 · answered by papa G 6 · 1 1

Jackson County, Missouri

2007-10-17 13:18:26 · answer #3 · answered by LDS Mom 6 · 0 0

Missouri

2007-10-17 12:40:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana

2007-10-17 13:34:43 · answer #5 · answered by Cosmic I 6 · 0 1

Somewhere between the the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

2007-10-17 12:40:50 · answer #6 · answered by Summer Dawn 3 · 0 1

Somewhere on the edge of Tigris River

2007-10-17 12:47:08 · answer #7 · answered by CLOUND 3 · 0 1

Iraq

2007-10-17 12:41:33 · answer #8 · answered by Gods child 6 · 0 1

Portland, OR has a really extensive rose garden you should see.

2007-10-17 12:42:18 · answer #9 · answered by Flatpaw 7 · 1 1

6 inches below Salma's perfect navel...

OK I didn't say that.

Er.....New Zealand? Always looks like paradise in the pics...??

2007-10-17 12:44:49 · answer #10 · answered by Bajingo 6 · 1 1

In heaven with God presently.
Originally Iraq.

2007-10-17 12:40:56 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

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