⁂ L. Rhodes on Nostr: It never really occured to me before that Eden is not the name of the garden. Rather, ...

It never really occured to me before that Eden is not the name of the garden. Rather, the garden is explicitly introduced as being planted in Eden, which establishes Eden as a distinct place. Further, the garden is watered by a river that "flows out of Eden," and branches into the Pishon, the Gihon, the Tigris and the Euphrates, which suggests that the authors may have had a specific region in mind when they spoke of Eden.