Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Read, James C" <K0434995 AT kingston.ac.uk>]

As the netherlands doesnot have a lush tropical environment and does not 
have an ancient culture at its esturay I would put the netherlands out of 
the running.

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Eh... the Rhine (Rijn) is also flowing from south to north. Further in the
Netherlands it splits in 3 parts: the "Rijn", the "IJssel" and the "Waal"; in
the past the Thames was also a sub-river of the Rhine. Is the Netherlands now
a candidate for Eden ;)

Jan Pieter van de Giessen

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:15:04 +0300, Vadim Cherny wrote
> 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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Hello everyone.
 I didn't mean Mikra'ot Gedolot but just the OT text itself - that will be
good enough to start with. What version/edition would you recommend? I was
thinking of Meir Leteris (published by the British and Foreign Bible
Society). I have been told that there are two lines of mss: From Ben Chayyim
in 1524-25 and then another school based on Aleppo and others. Could
somebody please explain that to me (is that wrong, right or what?) or refer
me to some mss "family tree" on the web? I just want to be informed so that
I can know what there is to choose from. Thank you very much for answering
these beginner questions, and maybe I'll drop in a question/comment later on
when I know some Hebrew myself.
 Sincerely,
Jon H. Stefansson.