The Pishon is mentioned in the Biblical Genesis (2:11) as one of four rivers branching off from a single river within Eden. The river is described as encircling "the entire land of Havilah", which cannot be positively identified. This Gutenberg Bible is displayed by the United States Library of Congress. ... Genesis (Greek: Γένεσις, having the meanings of birth, creation, cause, beginning, source and origin) is the first book of the Torah (five books of Moses) and hence the first book of the Tanakh, part of the Hebrew Bible; it is also the first book of the Christian Old Testament. ... This bridge across the Danube River links Hungary with Slovakia. ... The Fall of Man by Lucas Cranach, a 16th century German depiction of Eden The Garden of Eden (from Hebrew גַּן עֵדֶן ) is described in the Book of Genesis as being the place where the first man, Adam, and the first woman, Eve, lived after they were created by God. ... Havilah is a Biblical place-name mentioned in Genesis 2:11: The name of the first [river] is the Pishon; it is the one that winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. ...

The only two identified rivers of the four streams said to issue forth from Eden, the Tigris (Hiddekel, from Genesis 2:14) and the Euphrates, do not now rise in the same place. It must therefore be assumed that either the topography of the area has changed or the geographical notions of the Genesis writer(s) were inaccurate. However, some scholars have questioned English translations that say the rivers issued forth from Eden, and claim improved renderings are more flexible in their description. This interpretation would allow Eden to be a confluence point for four rivers originating elsewhere. The Tigris (Old Persian: Tigr, Syriac Aramaic: Deqlath, Arabic: دجلة, Dijla, Turkish: Dicle; biblical Hiddekil) is the eastern member of the pair of great rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates, which flows from the mountains of Anatolia through Iraq. ... The Euphrates (the traditional Greek name for the river, which is in Old Persian Ufrat, Aramaic Prâth/Frot, in Arabic الفرات, in Turkish Fırat and in ancient Assyrian language Pu-rat-tu) is the westernmost of the two great rivers that define... For discussion of land surfaces themselves, see Terrain. ... Map of the Earth Geography (from the Greek words Geo (γη) or Gaea (γαια), both meaning Earth, and graphein (γραφειν) meaning to describe or to writeor to map) is the study of the earth and its features, inhabitants, and phenomena. ...

Together with the Tigris, the river Pishon is briefly mentioned in the book of Ecclesiasticus (24:25), but this reference throws no more light on the location of the river. The Wisdom of Ben Sirach, (or The Wisdom of Joshua Ben Sirach or merely Sirach), called Ecclesiasticus by Christians, is a book written circa 180 BCE in Hebrew. ...

In the Biblical Table of Nations, Havilah is associated with Arabia. If the two can be equated, the Pishon may correspond to an ancient dry riverbed that terminated in the Persian Gulf. Evidence of this river is visible in satellite photos and a telltale, fan-shaped delta of gravel deposits at the old river mouth. Such identification is necessarily tentative. The neutrality and factual accuracy of this article are disputed. ... The Arabian Peninsula The Arabian Peninsula is a mainly desert peninsula in Southwest Asia at the junction of Africa and Asia and an important part of the greater Middle East. ... Wadi alMujib, Jordan A wadi (Arabic: ‎ ) is a dry riverbed that contains water only during times of heavy rain. ... Map of the Persian Gulf. ...

David Rohl identified Pishon with the Uizhun and placed Havilah to the northeast of Mesopotamia. The Uizhun is known locally as the Golden River. Rising near Mt. Sahand, it meanders between ancient gold mines and lodes of lapis lazuli before feeding the Caspian Sea. Such natural resources correspond to the ones associated with the land of Havilah in the Genesis account (2:11). David M. Rohl is a British Egyptologist and historian who has put forth several controversial theories concerning the chronology of Ancient Egypt and Palestine. ... The Sefid River (sÄ•pÄ“d´ rd), sometimes Sepid River, (sÄ•fÄ“d´ rd) or Rud-e Safid , literally White River, is a river, approximately 670 km (416 mi) long, rising in northwestern Iran and flowing generally east to meet the Caspian Sea at Rasht. ... Mesopotamia refers to the region now occupied by modern Iraq, and parts of eastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, and southwest Iran. ... Sahand (in Persian سهند) is the highest mountain (about 3800m) located in the Iranian province of East Azarbaijan. ... Gold mining consists of the processes and techniques employed in the removal of gold from the ground. ... A block of lapis lazuli Lapis lazuli is one of the oldest of all gems, with a history of use stretching back 7,000 years. ... The Caspian Sea (Russian: Каспийское море; Kazakh: Каспий теңізі; Turkmen: Hazar deňizi; Azeri: XÉ™zÉ™r dÉ™nizi; Persian: دریای خزر Daryā-ye Khazar) is the largest lake on Earth by area[2], with a surface area of 371,000 square kilometers (143,244 sq mi) and a volume of 78,200 cubic kilometers (18...

Certain Christian fundamentalists have sometimes appealed to the effects of the Noachian Flood to explain the seeming disappearance of the Pishon river and the supposed change in the upper courses of the Tigris and the Euphrates. In the Bible, names like Havilah and Cush may have come to mean different places at different times. Fundamentalist Christianity is a fundamentalist movement, especially within American Protestantism. ... Noahs Ark, Französischer Meister (The French Master), Magyar Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest. ... The Deluge by Gustave Doré. The story of a Great Flood sent by a deity or deities to destroy civilization as an act of divine retribution is a widespread theme in Greek and many other cultural myths. ...

See also

• Gihon