“Garden of Eden to become Iraqi National Park.” That’s the headline in New Scientist. The article is about the preservation of a part of the southern marshlands of Iraq, the region where the Ma’dan Marsh Arabs have historically lived, and a traditional homeland of the Mandaeans. Local lore also claims it was the site of the Garden of Eden.
There is a movie Gwendolen Cates is working on, “Mourning in the Garden of Eden,” which looks at religious minorities in that region, including Mandaeans and Christians.
When an article in a science magazine I read intersects with my interest in both the Bible and the Mandaeans, it deserves a mention.
