Eden may have been in Yemen

I have to agree with the position that the Tigris and Euphrates aren't useful for identifying Eden, since things changed at the Flood.  Rob Skiba likes to say the text of Genesis is present tense, but I think that's because Moses simply edited together older sources.  I believe Genesis 2-4 were written by Adam and Eve themselves.  The fact is, the relationship between the Tigris and Euphrates in Genesis 2 is literally the exact opposite of the Post-Flood rivers we now call by those names.

That doesn't mean I think it's hopeless to identify Eden's location.  Because there are Post-Flood references to it.

I had in the past fixated on ways to read the references in 2 Kings 19, Isaiah 37 and Amos 1 as placing Eden in Mesopotamia.  But those verses contain qualifiers like "Scepter of" and "sons of" that may mean we're dealing with references to Eden that are not geographically useful.

What's interesting however is Ezekiel 27:23, which mentions Eden right before Sheba.

Genesis 2 says the Garden was "Eastward in Eden".  Which has been debated between whether it means the Garden was in an Eastern part of Eden, or that Eden was East of where Yahuah first created Adam.  What's interesting is Genesis 10 says the children of Joktan settled at mount Sephar (Zafar), a mountain known to be in Yemen, and calls it a Mountain of the East.  A fact I also noted when arguing the Magi came from Arabia not Persia.

There is a region in Yemen called Aden.  And their local tradition is that it's as old as Humanity and Cain and Able were buried there.

Ezekiel goes on in Chapter 28 when addressing the Melek of Tyre to say the Mountain of God was in Eden.  And elsewhere in Scripture "Mountain of God" is a title used only of Sinai/Horeb, never of Zion or Moriah.  I noted this once before when trying to place Sinai in Iraq.

But now this Eden/Sinai connection is perfectly compatible with my past argument that Sinai was in Yemen and is the tallest Mountain in Arabia.

In that context this post is a companion piece to the one I made earlier today.  As well as this post.

Now it might be possible to make this argument compatible with connecting all the Genesis 2 names to their Post-Flood usage.  After all the first river mentioned is associated with Havilah, a name that is in Yemen near Sheba and Ophir post Flood.  But I'm gonna leave that to someone else to figure out since I don't find it necessary.