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["Vadim Cherny" <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>]

sure, I retract.

Vadim Cherny


> Your statement about the uniqueness of direction of flow of the Nile 
> may be a surprise to those familiar with the MacKenzie in Canada, the 
> Eel in California, and the Yenisey in Siberia, to name a few 
> other "south-to-north" rivers.  Of course, these other rivers have no 
> impact on your hypothesis about Ptolemaic cartographers.
>
> Paul Zellmer
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Vadim Cherny <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>
> Date: Monday, October 10, 2005 3:15 pm
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Eden & Cush
>
> > 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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