The area thought to be the Garden of Eden, which was flooded when Gulf waters arose, is shown in green. Yellow areas of Bahrain and Arabian coast represent Dilmun, paradise land of Ubaidians and Sumerians
http://www.ldolphin.org/eden/
Posted on 10/17/2006 6:10:35 AM PDT by NYer
There is an email that went around that perpetuated this myth. If I get some time, I'll post the link to the discussion of the email...
I have a daughter who wants to be an archaeologist. Looks like she'll need scuba lessons, too. :-)
Abraham's home was Ur of the Chaldees. I believe that was in the area known as modern day Iraq.
Soaking acorns is no biggie.
A lot depends on where a person or group ends up in the survival situation and how much history they have there. The situation for gatherer societies is one of having lived there for millennia. They know the food water and shelter resources.
Oh, and making fire is only hard if you don't know the correct woods and techniques to use. There are websites nowadays for that, but back then there were the older folk.
Iraq's legendary Garden of Eden marsh faces restoration
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-02-19-garden-of-eden_x.htm
Garden of Eden is a barren concrete jungle
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=1DBGPPPYB3XQNQFIQMFSFF4AVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2002/10/28/wiraq128.xml
The Garden of Eden has "Down with America" sprayed across its battered wall and the Tree of Life died many years ago. Every inch of grass in the biblical birthplace of mankind has been covered with chipped, concrete flagstones....
In fact, the Garden contains five small trees, none of which sprout any fruit. One has a green cloth tied to a branch, identifying it as the Tree of Life...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=1DBGPPPYB3XQNQFIQMFSFF4AVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2002/10/28/wiraq128.xml
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1721043/posts
The 5,000-year-old stones on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire,
Someone's wrong, give or take a thousand years.....
Sounds like a legitimate concern for ancient people.
"The story of King David is about switching from a nomadic life to one of agriculture"
The story of King David was one of his being part of a shepherd family, then anointed King because Saul had lost God's favor, but not yet able to take kingship becauese he was being hunted by Saul who wanted to kill him. David killed Goliath which raised his stature with the people, thus raising Saul's jealousy! That was the reason for David's earlier wanderings.
When Abraham lived there it was a seaside town. Today it is about 100 miles inland. (Silting) BTW, during the Ice Age, the Persian Gulf was completely dry.
"there's a lot of red dirt"
Significant because the name ADAM means literally "man of red mud"! Red dirt has much iron oxide in it!
Interesting enough, the heme molecule that allows the binding of oxygen to red blood cells has iron as its main element. "And God formed man from the dust"....
Who says the Bible has no science in it?!
So his people were nomadic and eventually wound up settled in one place?
His folks shephereded near the town of Bethlehem, that was their home base though I'm sure they wandered from hillside to valley in that region as the weather and grass dictated. Bethelehem was called the "city of David" in later OT, and the NT states that was where Jesus was born.
As for his later wanderings running from King Saul, he traveled with a band of fellow mercenaries, even hiring himself out to a Philistine king for a time.
Well, there're no mountains around Basra or Babylon. Both areas are flat as a table. Hot enough to go nekkid though : )
Methinks that animal might be a cat...
While ancient Egypt provides the first written record of cats, a burial discovered on Cyprus indicates humans and felines may have become associated much earlier.
... Jean-Denis Vigne of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris believes the relationship first blossomed with the development of agricultural societies 10,000 or so years ago.
"It seems that cats probably came more and more frequently into villages where grain stocks attracted numerous mice," said Vigne.
http://www.snappingturtle.net/gigantichound/archives/004162.html
The area thought to be the Garden of Eden, which was flooded when Gulf waters arose, is shown in green. Yellow areas of Bahrain and Arabian coast represent Dilmun, paradise land of Ubaidians and Sumerians
http://www.ldolphin.org/eden/
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