Gihon
Gihon or Gichon is the name of a river which is mentioned in the Bible in Genesis 2.13 EU .
“A river springs up in Eden that waters the garden; there it divides and becomes four main rivers. One is called Pishon ; it is he who flows around the whole land of Hawaii , where there is gold. The gold of that land is good; there are also bdellium resin and carnelian stones. The second stream is called Gihon; it is he who flows around the whole land of Kush. The third river is called the Tigris ; it is he who flows east of Assyria . The fourth river is the Euphrates . The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden, that he might cultivate and guard it. "
According to Meyer's Lexicon , Gihon is: “1. Mos. 2, 13 one of the four rivers of paradise , according to oriental writers the river Amu (Oxus), after others the Nile ; also the source and valley near Jerusalem , perhaps corresponding to today's source of Mary . "
Other rivers and regions, e.g. B. from Eastern Turkey were suspected. The English Egyptologist David Rohl identified the Turkish river Aras as the Gihon after a study of Genesis in its Hebrew original text . Rohl thinks that in the second chapter of the first book of Moses there is no mention of four main arms, but of the fact that it shares four sources, so the source area is meant.
A spring in Jerusalem also bears the name Gihon. It is unclear whether the watercourse that rises from the Gihon spring is identical to the biblical Gihon, or whether only a traditional name was used here again. The water from the Gihon Spring flows through a tunnel to the Pool of Siloam , which is at the southern end of the City of David .
literature
- Klaus Bieberstein : Jerusalem. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (Eds.): The Scientific Biblical Lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ In medieval Arabic sourcesجيحون, DMG Ǧaiḥūn .
- ↑ Gihon . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 7, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 343.
- ↑ In the footsteps of Genesis - Search for the biblical paradise. ZDF broadcast of March 7, 2005 archive link ( memento of February 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).