Information Related to "Answers from Genesis - Part 4"
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We continue exploring the book of Genesis and the common questions asked
about it. Here are the answers as we best understand them in light of the
Bible.
No one knows for sure, because it was located in a pre-Flood landscape, but the Bible leaves some geographical clues about where it existed.
The Bible states the Garden of Eden was situated where four rivers branched out (Genesis 2:10-14). Two of the rivers mentioned in the Garden of Eden are still known today—the Hiddekel (the Tigris) and the Euphrates (Genesis 2:14). The other two rivers, the Pishon and the Gihon, are not readily identified.
It is possible, though, that two great dry river beds revealed in that area by satellite imagery could turn out to be these two ancient rivers—the Pishon and the Gihon (see Smithsonian, "Has the Garden of Eden Been Located at Last?" Vol. 18, 1987). It may be that the Garden of Eden was located close to where the Tigris and the Euphrates converge and empty their waters, in the northern tip of the Persian Gulf.
An alternative view has more recently been presented by archaeologist David Rohl in his book Legend: The Genesis of Civilisation (1998), as well as in a TV documentary on The Learning Channel, In Search of Eden (2002). He proposes that the Garden of Eden could have been situated near the headwaters of the Tigris and the Euphrates—more specifically in northwest Iran. He makes a plausible argument based on linguistic and historical evidence. Yet for now the matter remains one of conjecture.
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