The Garden in Eden: Parallels in the Temple, New Jersualem, and the Ancient Near East

 I am starting my new Bible research project! Here is a preview of what I will be covering. I am not releasing anything for a while so I can focus on the research itself. I may release a little nugget once in a while! I will be covering a lot! 

The Garden in Eden: Parallels in the Temple, New Jerusalem and the Ancient Near East

Part 1: The Importance of Seeing Eden in Context

1.     The Study of Comparisons

2.    What is Sacred Space?

3.   Creation as a Temple

Part 2: Eden’s Temple

4.    The Location of Eden 1: Eastern Mesopotamia?

5.    The Location of Eden 2: Armenia?

6.     The Location of Eden 3: Jerusalem?

7.    Eden’s Mountain

8.    The Four Rivers of Eden – The Laver and the River of Life

9.    Ark of the Covenant – The Holy of Holies - the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil

10 Menorah – Tree of Life

11  Are the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge one tree?

12  Table of Showbread – YHWH’s Shekinah

13  The Altar – Abel and Cain’s Altar

Part 3: Temple Parallels in Genesis and the Ancient Near East

14  Noah’s Temple

15  What the Tower of Babel was all about

16  Ancient Near Eastern Temples 1: Egyptian Temples

17  Ancient Near Eastern Temples 2: Mesopotamian Ziggurats

18  Eden and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (Nineveh?)

19  Abraham’s Part in Restoring Eden

Part 4: Eden in the Tanakh and the New Testament – The Expectancy

20  Eden in the Exodus

21  Eden in the Gospels

22  Eden in Paul and Peter’s Writings

Part 5: Eden in the Temple

23  Mount Sinai’s Temple

24  Eden in the Tabernacle

25  Eden in the First (Solomon’s) Temple

26  Eden in the Second (Herod’s) Temple

Part 6: The Future: The New Jerusalem: Eden’s Sanctuary Restored

27  Egyptian Pyramids as the place of Resurrection

28  Restored Eden in the Messianic Temple and New Jerusalem

29  Where is the Location of the Messianic Temple and the New Jerusalem

Part 7: Eden in Us