The Original Garden of Eden
- Title:
- The Original Garden of Eden
- Alternate Title:
- The Original Garden of Eden
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Saule, D.
- Date:
- 1966
- Posted Date:
- 2017-04-14
- ID Number:
- 1383.01
- Collection Number:
- 8548
- File Name:
- PJM_1383_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1960 - Present
- Subject:
- Religion
- Measurement:
- 9.5 x 12 on page 14 x 20 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- From the Middle Ages to our own time, the land of Eden - the site of biblical Paradise - has been a continuing subject of study, theological and geographical. See generally Scafi 2006. The pendulum has repeatedly swung from a symbolic reading of the biblical Paradise to a literal one and back again. Ibid. 352. "Mapping paradise [is] one of the most powerful expressions of the fundamental tension between the locative and utopian tendencies in Christianity." Ibid. 153.
The Age of Discovery led in the 17th century to persistent pressure for Christian theology to identify the precise location of Paradise in order to validate the text of Genesis. As Thomas Gale wrote in 1694: "Atheists and scoffers, whom the psalmist call Pests, usually demand, What's become of paradise? Shew us the place in the Maps? And if this be not done for them (they are generally lazy) with all exactness, . . . they will slide into a disbelief first of Genesis, then of the whole bible, and lastly of all revealed religion." (Quoted ibid. 284.) There are more than a dozen such maps in the collection, locating Eden from the Middle East (Iraq, Armenia, Palestine) to Western China, Bristol Florida, Jackson County Missouri, and the North Pole; Search > "Eden."
This map illustrates a book by E.E. Callaway, a Baptist minister, lawyer, legislator, Florida Republican Party activist, and resident of Bristol, Florida. Mr. Callaway's work - based on "indisputable facts arrived at by the use of the scientific principles of Teleology and Relativity" - demonstrates that Eden was not located in Asia, but in "Bristol, in Liberty County, Florida."
For further information on the Collector’s Notes and a Feedback/Contact Link, see https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/about-collection-personal-statement and https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/feedback-and-contact - Source:
- Callaway, E.E. 1966. In the Beginning: Creation - Evolution - Garden of Eden and Noah's Ark. New York: Carlton Press, Inc.
- Cite As:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography, #8548. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.