> If Havilah were the same place as mentioned later, where is the Pishon
> River? This river remains unknown.
> If Cush were the same place as mentioned later, where is the Gihon? This
> river remains unknown.
> The post flood Tigris runs through the heart of ancient Asshur, not to the
> east of Asshur.
> The Euphrates is not associated with any region, yet in the post flood
> world, it is the river of mighty Nimrod's Babylon.
The amount of description supplied about the rivers is apparently related
to how familiar Moses's readers would have been with the rivers. No one
needed to tell them where the Euphrates was. It was so well known that it
was referred to as the great river (Gen. 15:18) or simply the River
(Joshua 24:14,15).
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395