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  • From: "Vadim Cherny" <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Eden & Cush
  • Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:15:04 +0300

Nile is the only river in the world that flows south-to-north. Ptolemaic cartographer had every reason to assume that Nile is like any other river, flowing north-to-south, and so (looking at the map) that it splits into four (splitting in the direction of its flow), not joined from the four.

Tanakh has only one Cush, populated by blacks. Cush, son of Ham.

Vadim Cherny

First, what does the text actually say? It says there was
one river that flowed through Eden which then split up into
four rivers. This is opposite the situation with Nile
where many rivers, including four bearing the name Nile
come together, not split apart. Nor does it occur in
Mesopotamia, or indeed anywhere in the world. This was
discussed in some detail a few months ago in May.

While it is true that KW# is applied to Ethopia however it
also applies to at least two other locales, southern Arabia
and the land of the Kassites. Dr. Head made a very
interesting presentation of this in May thread.

HH: There may be more than one Cush in the Bible.
The one in Genesis may be an Asian Cush, not the
African Cush. Here is the HAL entry for the word:







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