Eden
Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.
The fourth paragraph to the first subheading, Fatu hiva, advises us that "the Bible never says "the Garden of Eden" but says that God planted a garden in Edin, a term which means the Plain. Edin and the garden are conceptually distinct, but in Jewish thought the two become conflated and linked to the garden [paradise] of delight."
English Wiktionary associates Eden with Akkadian edinu ("desert, steppe") or the proto-Semitic root to dialectical Arabic for "abode, biding place, place of remaining" or the Semitic root for "duration, time" or Sumerian eden ("open country, plain").
The Sumerian correlates with the fourth-paragraph description of the plain designated Edin.
Does all the above entail our envisioning Eden as open country instead of as a garden?
DerdriuMarriner, Sep 7, 2024