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To: syriacus
Actually, the Sumerians named the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia as "Eden".

They wrote it down long before Abram became Abraham.

264 posted on 08/18/2005 7:47:16 PM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again?)
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To: muawiyah
Actually, the Sumerians named the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia as "Eden". They wrote it down long before Abram became Abraham.

That makes sense.

And Abraham, being from Ur, probably would have learned the same place names as his fellow Mesopotamians.

313 posted on 08/18/2005 8:09:52 PM PDT by syriacus (Cindy doesn't want our soldiers to shoot insurgent bombers who are murdering small Iraqi children.)
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