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Wikipedia: Garden of Eden (289 words) |
 | This word is Persian in origin and it means a large a pleasant tract of land. |
| The term Eden is Sumerian via Hebrew and is derived from the term Edinu. |
| Edinu was a garden with had a similar role in Sumerian mythology. |
| CBS News | 'Finding God In The Garden' | September 12, 2002 10:10:32 (1316 words) |
| Linguistic scholars tell us that while the Hebrew word eden means "delight," the word actually derives from the language of a Middle Eastern civilization, the Sumerians, who predated the Hebrews in that part of the world by some 1500 years. |
| We find in their vocabulary the word edinu, meaning "steppe" or "plain." So Eden, a diminutive or corruption of edinu, might have been a plain or steppe nestled somewhere between the two great life-giving rivers of the Middle East, the Tigris and Euphrates, the possible sources of our garden's water. |
| By the time the Hebrews appeared on the scene, the phrase "Garden of Eden" came to signify some mythical afterdeath place for the righteous, and it lost all geographic meaning. |
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