Show ALL DISAGREE OVER adeff the location of the earthly paradise or garden of eden Is still a matter 0 dispute among Orienta lists and scrip tural scholars of highest reputation says the brooklyn citizen some have endeavored to locate it by the fruits and mineral productions named in the biblical descriptions as they appear in the second chapter of gene sis others by the rivers mentioned in verses 11 to 14 of the above men tinned chapter the weight of hinves ti gatlon and tradition incline to an agreement that the tigris and the euphrates ol 01 modern geography are the third and fourth rivers mentioned in the biblical description of the gar den those who agree so far differ widely as to what rivers should now be regarded as the ancient pison and gihon the scholars al though they reject our bib e in great er part incline to the opinion that the pison is the sacred ganges and that the gihon Is none other than the nile As to the last it is altogether probable that they are correct on hat point because the biblical account plainly sas that gihon comp asseth the vidolf land of etheopia some investigations confirm that eden was a spot ot comparatively small area located on the tablelands of what is now armenia from which rise the tigris and the euphrates A few scholars of distinction argue that the adamic paradise was located in africa in the vicinity of the moun bains of the moon still another school of Orienta lists locate the cele berated garden in the vicinity 0 the ancient city of babylon you will notice however that none of these theorists has been able to get the four rivers mentioned in the biblical account properly located neither have they found a place where one great river separates into four heads this being the case it is necessary to add that the exact location of eden is a mystery that will probably never be solved |