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"Eden" in Hebrew is Eden - ayin-dalet-nun - not
"Eden" in Hebrew is Eden - ayin-dalet-nun - not
"Aten". According to the New User-Friendly Hebrew-English Dictionary, eden means pleasure, delicacy; Eden, paradise. Nahum Sarna in the JPS Torah Commentary on Genesis, notes that the Septuagint translated the Hebrew word for "garden" - gan (gimel-nun) - as "paradeisos", "a term that originated in the Old Persian pairi-daeza, meaning 'an enclosed park, a pleasure ground'". "Eden", Sarna continues, "has been derived from the Sumerian edinu, 'a plain,' but an Aramaic-Akkadian bilingual inscription suggests that the real meaning is 'luxuriance'". Ahavah, 8 July 2007
"Aten". According to the New User-Friendly Hebrew-English Dictionary, eden means pleasure, delicacy; Eden, paradise. Nahum Sarna in the JPS Torah Commentary on Genesis, notes that the Septuagint translated the Hebrew word for "garden" - gan (gimel-nun) - as "paradeisos", "a term that originated in the Old Persian pairi-daeza, meaning 'an enclosed park, a pleasure ground'". "Eden", Sarna continues, "has been derived from the Sumerian edinu, 'a plain,' but an Aramaic-Akkadian bilingual inscription suggests that the real meaning is 'luxuriance'". Ahavah, 8 July 2007
== Trees as people ==
I've reverted Music4u's contribution as I consider it to be nonsense. If, however, he can show where others have made this claim, perhaps it can go back in in some form. There's no doubt that trees are used symbolically to represent people at times, but that doesn't mean that the trees in Eden were actually people, as the new section claims. And as Adam and Eve were the only two people when they were in the Garden, the trees ''could not'' be people. [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 22:39, 30 September 2008 (EDT)