įor some Christians, especially in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, Eden is considered a reality outside of empirical history that effects the entire history of the universe as seen in the idea of an atemporal fall that separates humanity's current reduced form of time from the divine life enjoyed in Eden. Another interpretation associates the name with a Hebrew word for ' pleasure' thus the Vulgate reads paradisum voluptatis in Genesis 2:8, and the Douay–Rheims Bible, following, has the wording 'And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure'. The name derives from the Akkadian edinnu, from a Sumerian word edin meaning ' plain ' or ' steppe ', closely related to an Aramaic root word meaning ' fruitful, well-watered '. Mentions of Eden are also made in the Bible elsewhere in Genesis, in Isaiah 51:3, Ezekiel 36:35, and Joel 2:3 Zechariah 14 and Ezekiel 47 use paradisical imagery without naming Eden. The Hebrew Bible depicts Adam and Eve as walking around the Garden of Eden naked due to their sinlessness. Like the Genesis flood narrative, the Genesis creation narrative and the account of the Tower of Babel, the story of Eden echoes the Mesopotamian myth of a king, as a primordial man, who is placed in a divine garden to guard the tree of life. Various suggestions have been made for its location: at the head of the Persian Gulf, in southern Mesopotamia where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers run into the sea and in Armenia. The location of Eden is described in the Book of Genesis as the source of four tributaries. In Abrahamic religions, the Garden of Eden ( Biblical Hebrew: גַּן־עֵדֶן‎, romanized: gan-ʿĒḏen) or Garden of God ( גַּן־יְהֹוֶה‎, gan- YHWH and גַן־אֱלֹהִים‎, gan- Elohim), also called the Terrestrial Paradise, is the biblical paradise described in Genesis 2–3 and Ezekiel 28 and 31. 1615, depicting both domestic and exotic wild animals such as tigers, parrots and ostriches co-existing in the garden

The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Paul Rubens, c. For the painting, see Terrestrial Paradise (Bosch).

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