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"The historical
and cultural relations between Anatolia
(Turkey) and the Biblical world start at the
beginning of the Old Testament (Genesis
2:14) with the Tigris and Euphrates, two of
the rivers which flow through the Garden of
Eden, and terminate at the end of the New
Testament (Revelation 16:12-15), again with
the Euphrates where it dries up to allow the
crossing of the forces of the nether world
before the final battle at Armageddon. 'The
mountains of Ararat' on which the Ark came
to rest, Noah's descendants by Japheth who
populated this land, the Sea Peoples who
devastated it and finally ended up in
Palestine, the journeys of Paul and letters
of John are a few of the hallmarks which
bind the history of Anatolia to the Bible.
This long relation in its later history was
supplemented by the great contreversies of
early Christianity which involved the
Churches of Rome, Constantinople, Antioch,
Alexandria and Palestine and their solution
in the Ecumenical Councils which were all
held in Anatolia." Biblical Anatolia, Fatih
Cimok...
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