12. ''Edin''

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*History 8 Mesopotamia Vocabulary

"The word Edin is also a Sumerian word, meaning the wild, natural landscape which lay outside the artificial landscape of the city. This word was derived from the word Eden, which the bible defines as paradise" (73).

-Evan Hammerman Cole_Thomas_The_Garden_of_Eden_1828.jpg

Cf manual page 73 [1]