Question: What do scholars say about the Euphrates River in the Bible? Is it literal or allegorical?
IMO, literal, in its time!
This is the terminology used by the Bible to describe this river, which is in the "Prophetic Area" since the early part of the Bible. It is named in Genesis 2:14, and is one of the “four heads” of Gen. 2:10. It is described in the Old Persian as Pura-nun = "the great river" (Companion Bible).
It has played many parts in the history of the area, including Ancient Babylon; and it has a special part to play as the future location of Prophetic Abram's Eastern border, (Gen. 15:18).
See: Euphrates: Rev. 9:14-16 (Study)
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