What were the names of the rivers in the garden of Eden?

Answer 1

Genesis chapter 2 says that a river flowed through the Garden of Eden and that it had four tributaries, Pishon, Gihon, Tigris and Euphrates.

The Tigris, and Euphrates flow down through Iraq in western Asia, or the Middle East.

The Bible says that the Pishon flowed to the north, although no such river is known to us.

The Bible says that the Gihon flowed through Ethiopia, in the African continent, although no such river is known to us.

A single river can not have tributaries in two continents, so there are real problems with the story of the Garden of Eden and its four rivers, two of which may never have existed. Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) says that the Garden of Eden is a purely mythic place.

Answer 2

The Book of Genesis identifies four rivers that went out of Eden, the Pishon, Gihon, Tigris and Euphrates. Only the last two of which are clearly known to us, but the Gihon is described as being in Ethiopia, which is actually in another continent.

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Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) says that there can be no single terrestrial place that would serve as the common source of these four widely separated rivers. True, the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers do meet, but the lands the text associates with the first two rivers are clearly separated from the Tigris-Euphrates valley, the first to the north, the second to the south. This geographical impossibility tells us that the Garden of Eden was a purely mythical place. While the Tigris and Euphrates are clearly known to us, the Pishon and Gihon Rivers are probably simply mythical.

Answer 3

The Book of Genesis identifies four rivers that went out of Eden, the Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, and Euphrates. Only the last two of which are clearly known to us, but the Gihon is described as being in Ethiopia, which is actually in another continent.

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Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) says that there can be no single terrestrial place that would serve as the common source of these four widely separated rivers. True, the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers do meet, but the lands the text associates with the first two rivers are clearly separated from the Tigris-Euphrates valley, the first to the north, the second to the south. This geographical impossibility tells us that the Garden of Eden was a purely mythical place.

Answer 4

1) They were the life-arteries of some of the world's earliest settlements and civilizations.

2) Spiritually, they also allude to the major sephirot (spiritual levels or worlds); manifestation's of God's emanation as it descends.

Answer 5

im NT sure about all four, but I know that the Tigris and Euphrates did.

Answer 6

The names of the 4 rivers can be found in the 2nd chapter verses 11-14 of the book of Genesis: The Pi'shon, the Gi'hon, the Hid'de-kel, and the Euphrates.

Answer 7

The answer is found in Genesis 2:10-14.

Answer 8

Genesis 2:10