Adam and Eve

[greentwiga]

Well, that is an interpretation that doesn't treat the Bible as 100% accurate. It not only says that one of the rivers is the Tigris, but to make it clear, says it is the Tigris that flows east of Assyria. The city of Assyria sits on the west bank of the Tigris.

One of the problems with most interpretations, is they ignore important clues. Everyone ignores the biological clues, figs and bread. Adam and Eve had to have lived where the wild figs grew. The center of wild diversity for figs was Syria. It included south Eastern Turkey. The band extends between the Tigris and Euphrates, but in just a narrow band. This fits Mesopotamia, but not China, or Africa as some put Eden. It doesn't even fit Mesopotamia by/in the Persian Gulf as one popular interpretation has it. It only fits the part of the fertile crescent between the two rivers.

 

[AV1611VET]

Well, that is an interpretation that doesn't treat the Bible as 100% accurate. It not only says that one of the rivers is the Tigris, but to make it clear, says it is the Tigris that flows east of Assyria. The city of Assyria sits on the west bank of the Tigris.

One of the problems with most interpretations, is they ignore important clues. Everyone ignores the biological clues, figs and bread. Adam and Eve had to have lived where the wild figs grew. The center of wild diversity for figs was Syria. It included south Eastern Turkey. The band extends between the Tigris and Euphrates, but in just a narrow band. This fits Mesopotamia, but not China, or Africa as some put Eden. It doesn't even fit Mesopotamia by/in the Persian Gulf as one popular interpretation has it. It only fits the part of the fertile crescent between the two rivers.

Those rivers you mentioned in Mesopotamia could very well be the Tigris II and the Euphrates II.

After all, there are kings mentioned whose real titles would be like Jeroboam I and Jeroboam II -- so why not rivers likewise?

Also, the Gihon & Pishon seem to be missing from the topography of the area.

An interesting theory, to say the least anyway.

 

[greentwiga]

Those rivers you mentioned in Mesopotamia could very well be the Tigris II and the Euphrates II.

After all, there are kings mentioned whose real titles would be like Jeroboam I and Jeroboam II -- so why not rivers likewise?

Also, the Gihon & Pishon seem to be missing from the topography of the area.

An interesting theory, to say the least anyway.

It can't be referring to an original Tigris with this Tigris II. That is why I mentioned that it is the Tigris that flows east of Assyria. There is one mountain in the Area, and it has two other rivers that flow off it, the Khabur (mentioned in the Bible.) and one flowing north. Both have a very winding nature.