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    Eden

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    David Gibson spent many years searching for the Garden of Eden. He was convinced that the Garden of Eden was an actual place, and that the Bible provides us clues as to its location. By carefully examining the Hebrew account, David unlocked clues that enabled him to draw a map of Eden's location. He then searches the Middle East until he is able to locate each of the four rivers of Eden. This books includes maps, satellite images, geology, and more.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCanBooks
    Release dateMay 1, 2013
    ISBN9781927581070
    Eden
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    David Gibson

    David Gibson is a novelist who specializes in horror, suspense, and fantasy. He is earning his BFA in creative writing from Full Sail University. His flash fiction story “Her Loss” has been published in Down in the Dirt Magazine. David likes to have mirrors placed around the house so he can see those pesky spirits exploring his Lego collection.

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      Eden - David Gibson

      EDEN

      by David J. Gibson

      CanBooks 2013

      Eden by David J. Gibson

      Copyright 2013 CanBooks

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means - electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or any other except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

      Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations marked (ESV) are from the Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright @ 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. \

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      ISBN: 978-1-927581-07-0

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      Introduction

      David J. Gibson spent many years searching for the Garden of Eden. As a Bible believing Christian he was convinced that Eden was an actual place, and that the Bible provides us clues as to its location. David’s search for Eden was cut short in 1964 by his untimely death. However, before he died David was able to complete the initial draft manuscript of a book titled "The Land of Eden Located."

      David’s son, Dan Gibson spent many years living in the Middle East researching the history of the ancient Nabataean civilization. In 2003, Dan decided to scan his father’s book onto the computer, typeset it and add the graphics to the appropriate places. He then edited a number of places where small corrections needed to be made, or where updated information is now available, (including the use of satellite images,) and made it available on a website.

      In 2006 this material was published by CanBooks, and then in 2013 as an electronic book under Smashwords. We trust you will enjoy this book and the years of research that went into it.

      Other books by the same author:

      * Old Testament Chronology (after King Solomon)

      * Early Man in Scripture and in Science

      * The Ships of Tarshish

      * Edom and the Hyksos

      Table of Contents

      Chapter One: A Few Leading Clues

      Chapter Two: The Rivers Euphrates and Hiddekel

      Chapter Three: The River Pison

      Chapter Four: The River Gihon

      Chapter Five: The Changing River Courses

      Chapter Six: Eden in Relation to Geology

      Chapter Seven: Eden and Biblical Chronology

      Chapter Eight: Cain’s City of Enoch

      Appendix A: Are the names in Genesis 2 Postdiluvial?

      Bibliography

      Chapter One: A Few Leading Clues

      For many years theologians, historians, and scientific thinkers have disputed about the story of the Garden of Eden. Is it actual and historical? Is it allegorical or a myth? Or is it just plain fantasy? That it may have allegorical meaning, we will not deny. But one thing we do wish to point out is that, taken at face value, treated as if historical, some really astonishing things begin to come to light.

      We begin to discover a strange alliance to certain actual facts which the new science of archaeology is unearthing, a fitting together of known facts; so much so that even the doubter is made to stop and wonder if some reality does not lie behind the ancient story. The Biblical account and description of Eden, rightly and fairly treated, not only makes sense with itself but harmonizes astonishingly well with the geography of ancient times. That this should be so, we think, lends support to ‘The historical view" though others may dissent. Nevertheless, let us set forth our findings for what they are worth, hoping that others will pick up the good points therein and make further research.

      Our study of this interesting subject falls into three main sections:

      (1) Eden in Relation to Geography

      (2) Eden in Relation to Geology

      (3) Eden in Relation to Chronology (both Biblical and secular systems of dating)

      That these subjects simply bristle with difficulties we know only too well, but we believe that what we have to say will remove at least some of them and will assist in establishing a good foundation for future study.

      A Geographical Description

      At the outset of this study of Eden in relation to geography may we point out that the Hebrew account recorded in chapter 2 of Genesis is, for Biblical literature, an unusually full and detailed geographical description. It abounds with geographical names. The writer is putting forth special effort to locate and identify the geographical features referred to. Such trouble and care is surely unnecessary for the purpose of pure fantasy or allegory. Clearly the writer had in mind a definite locality which he expected his readers to

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