Zone1 Was The Garden Of Eden A Real Place?

[surada]

Sumer is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia, emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC. Wikipedia
Dates: c. 5500 – c. 1800 BC
Period: Late Neolithic, Middle Bronze Age
Geographical range: Mesopotamia, Near East, Middle East

 

[hobelim]

Yes, of course

So then the story penned by Moses, whether the elements were inspired by existing tales or not, is about the contemporary concerns of Hebrew people recently freed from Egyptian slavery.

Long after many civilizations had already come and gone over thousands of years....

In other words the story has nothing whatever to do with any transition from hunter gatherers.

 

[surada]

So then the story penned by Moses, whether the elements were inspired by existing tales or not, is about the contemporary concerns of Hebrew people recently freed from Egyptian slavery.

Long after many civilizations had already come and gone over thousands of years....

In other words the story has nothing whatever to do with any transition from hunter gatherers.

The weren't ever in Egypt. They were in Canaan and Egypt controlled Canaan for four hundred years.

Notice they never mentioned the pyramids or the Sphinx.