From: | K in the Shadows <Ereskanti@***.COM> |
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Subject: | Eden (OT) (Re: Loenardo (Was: egypt)) |
Date: | Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:22:34 EST |
robert.watkins@******.COM writes:
>
> Acadmeics don't give much weight to the theory that the Garden of Eden is
> between the Tigris and the Euphrates. For starters, they aren't joined
> (certainly not with 2 other rivers). I caught a documentary a while back
> which proposed the island of Bahrain as the likely spot (some bigwig from
> the University of Israel has it as his pet theory), and amongst other
> evidence is fossil records showing the island to have enjoyed a tropical
> climate and ecology about 6000 years ago, and a peaceful culture. Given
that
> the Arabian penisula was already a desert by that point, Bahrain would
> certainly have seemed like a garden.
>
Ah, then too bad he shoots down his own pet theory, for anyone with any
recollection at all would recall that Eden had only two inhabitants of the
"non-animal" variety.
-K (who won't reply to the Eden thread anymore unless it's personal email now)