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[b-hebrew] Eden & Rivers - Genesis 2:10

From: <tladatsi AT charter.net>
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Subject: [b-hebrew] Eden & Rivers - Genesis 2:10
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 23:50:28 -0400

The text of Genesis 2:10 does not say that the four rivers
flow into or through Eden. Rather a single river leaves
Eden and then forms the *head(waters)* for four rivers,
including the Tigris and Euphrates. The head waters of the
Tigris and Euphrates are very close to one another in
Eastern Turkey not far from Mt. Ararat. Several other
rivers have their headwaters in that region, e.g. the
Araxes and Keyhan (Gihon?). So, based on a prima facie
reading of Genesis 2:10, Eden would be in Eastern Turkey,
not in Mesopotemia.

Jack Tladatsi

[b-hebrew] Eden & Rivers - Genesis 2:10, tladatsi, 05/11/2005
- Re: [b-hebrew] Eden & Rivers - Genesis 2:10, Heard, Christopher, 05/12/2005
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Eden & Rivers - Genesis 2:10, Steve Miller, 05/13/2005
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Eden & Rivers - Genesis 2:10, Heard, Christopher, 05/14/2005
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- Re: [b-hebrew] Eden & Rivers - Genesis 2:10, Yigal Levin, 05/12/2005