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Has the Garden of Eden been located at last?
The Smithsonian ^
| May 1987
| Dora Jane Hamblin
Posted on 04/07/2003 2:39:28 PM PDT by Sabertooth
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To: Lynne
The move from hunter-gatherer to agricultural society was not an overnight, all-or-nothing thing. It was a gradual process with the two groups co-existing for thousands of years.
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posted on
04/07/2003 4:57:32 PM PDT
by
Junior
(Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.)
To: Sabertooth
Thanks, got to read later!
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posted on
04/07/2003 5:03:22 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(Where is Saddam? and where is Tom Daschle?)
To: APBaer
Oh, Oh. What if there is a hemp patch in the Garden?
The first Libertarians??
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posted on
04/07/2003 5:05:22 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Bumperootus!)
To: ErnBatavia
"The first Libertarians??"
Unless, *HE* planted it?
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posted on
04/07/2003 5:09:32 PM PDT
by
APBaer
To: Sabertooth
Self ping for later read
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posted on
04/07/2003 5:12:25 PM PDT
by
dpa5923
(More than a man, less than a god.)
To: Sabertooth
bump
To: Sabertooth
"An oldie, but a goodie." Agree with you there, but why put it under news/current events?
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posted on
04/07/2003 6:19:09 PM PDT
by
CJ Wolf
(thanks for the ping - BTW)
To: Sabertooth
Thus the Garden of Eden, on the geographical evidence, must have been somewhere at the head of the Gulf at a time when all four rivers joined and flowed through an area that was then above the level of the Gulf. The wording in Genesis that Eden's river came into four heads" was dealt with by Biblical scholar Ephraim Speiser some years ago: the passage, he said, refers to the four rivers upstream of their confluence into the one river watering the Garden. This is a strange perspective, but understandable if one reflects that the description is of a folk memory, written millennia after the events encapsulated, by men who had never been within leagues of the territory. According to Genesis 2:8-14 "A river watering the garden flowed from Eden, and from there it divided. It had four headstreams. The name of the first is the Pishon. It winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there. The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush. The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates."
However, Adam and Eve were prevented from going back to paradise as is stated in Genesis 3:24, "So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life."
The Tigris and the Euphrates are in Iraq. After the Iraq situation is over, I would love to visit paradise, wanna come?
To: Victoria Delsoul
The Tigris and the Euphrates are in Iraq. After the Iraq situation is over, I would love to visit paradise, wanna come?
Heck yeah! Sounds like a great riverboat cruise.
To: Sabertooth
Yeah, it'll be fun. ;-)
To: CJ Wolf
To: Sabertooth
Bump for later.
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posted on
04/07/2003 8:03:11 PM PDT
by
FrogMom
To: Sabertooth
Interesting reading. Makes me wish that I had access to a time machine!
To: Sabertooth
Saber,
Thanks for this..been away and checking my pings...this is a keeper.
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posted on
04/10/2003 9:13:27 AM PDT
by
SkyPilot
(Go Syracuse Orangeman!)
To: SkyPilot
Sounds like the name of a new waterfront resort in Bagdad "Garden of Eden Resort & SPA" calling Marriott!
To: Allan
bump
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posted on
04/11/2003 12:57:03 AM PDT
by
Nogbad
As Sabertooth said, oldie but a goodie. I'm not going to ping the list, merely add it to the homepage. Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)
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posted on
10/09/2004 4:48:30 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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posted on
06/23/2007 11:00:50 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated June 23, 2007.)
To: SunkenCiv
Some people say that the tradition of the garden, which is guarded by angels with flaming swords, is because of the green delta in southern Iraq. There are natural petroleum wells near the surface, which sometimes burst into flames.
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