Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk"<peter_kirk AT sil.org>]

Although David Rohl (in "Legend" pp.54-58) shows an appalling 
ignorance of the Azerbaijani language ;-( he does seem to be on firm 
ground when he argues for the four rivers of Genesis 2:11-14 being:

1) Pishon = (Azerbaijani) Qyzyl Uzan (means "swimming with gold")
        (but this is the least certain of the four)
2) Gihon = (Arabic) Jeyhun = (Azerbaijani) Araz = (Greek) Araxes
        (which flows through the land of Cush = (classical) Cossaea)
3) Tigris
4) Euphrates

This firmly locates the Garden of Eden (as envisaged by the author of 
Genesis) around Lake Urmia.

But I would be interested in evidence for an Arabian Pishon.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re: Genesis and Gilgamesh
Author:  <mc2499 AT mclink.it> at Internet
Date:    18/01/2000 23:53


John Ronning wrote:

>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.

This is one of those amazing facts that aren't as yet facts stories. David 
Rohl has argued for a four rivers scenario found in north-western Iran. 
Some other scholar has argued that the Pishon was a dry river bed in 
Arabia. WHere does this leave us other than incredulous regarding both?


Ian


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