Sognare i fiumi: la Scrittura inizia con quattro e finisce con uno

Scripture begins with four rivers and ends with one. Almost everything in between happens somewhere along a bank. The rivers of Eden A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. (Genesis 2:10) The passage then names them — the Pishon, the Gihon, the Tigris and the Euphrates — and adds a digression about where the gold is good and where the onyx can be found, which is an oddly specific thing for…