The Holman Bible Atlas describes the Garden of Eden as a well-watered place. A place of life giving water and fertile land where God made provisions for Adam and Eve. The Garden was full of many fruit bearing trees, one of which Adam was told not to eat of. Holman refers to the Genesis chapter 2 account when describing the river Euphrates that went out of Eden and was parted into four heads (rivers).The text offers three proposed locations for the Garden. Proposal one is one where the rivers can be easily matched with the present geography of the Middle East. This proposal places the Garden in the Armenian Mountains near the headwater of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers. The author lists a second
The Holman Bible Atlas describes the Garden of Eden as a well-watered place. A place of life giving water and fertile land where God made provisions for Adam and Eve. The Garden was full of many fruit bearing trees, one of which Adam was told not to eat of. Holman refers to the Genesis chapter 2 account when describing the river Euphrates that went out of Eden and was parted into four heads (rivers).The text offers three proposed locations for the Garden. Proposal one is one where the rivers can be easily matched with the present geography of the Middle East. This proposal places the Garden in the Armenian Mountains near the headwater of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers. The author lists a second