Biblical Hebrew Forum

[ben.crick AT argonet.co.uk (Ben Crick)]

On Tue 18 Jan 2000 (11:05:41 +0200), ronning AT nis.za wrote:
> Along these same lines, it would be good to remember the
> discovery a few years ago of what appears to be the ancient
> Pishon River described in Genesis 2, apparently dried up and
> buried in sand some 1000 years before Abraham, yet its
> ancient course is preserved in no other known ancient source
> except Genesis.  And by the way, the discovery was made by a
> "humanist scholar" who saw this evidence and said "now I am
> recanting."

 Dear John,

 This is good to hear, John; but without author, book, publisher,
 date and page reference it is just another unverifiable hearsay
 anecdote. "Science has proved....".

 Have you got the bibliographical reference for this claim, please?

 Shalom
 Ben
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