Garden of Eden. The Garden of Eden, also called Paradise, is the biblical garden of God described in the Book of Genesis and the Book of Ezekiel. Genesis 13:10 refers to the garden of God, and the trees of the garden are mentioned in Ezekiel 31. The Book of Zechariah and the Book of Psalms also refer to trees and water, without explicitly mentioning Eden. 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. Another interpretation associates the name with a Hebrew word for pleasure; thus the Douay-Rheims Bible in Genesis 2:8 has the wordingAnd the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure, rather than a garden in Eden. The Hebrew term is translated pleasure in Sarah's secret saying in Genesis 18:12. 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. The Hebrew Bible depicts Adam and Eve as walking around the Garden of Eden naked, due to their innocence. The location of Eden is described in the Book of Genesis as the source of four tributaries. The Garden of Eden is considered to be mythological by most scholars. Among those that consider it to have been real, there have been various suggestions 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 second part of the Genesis creation narrative, Genesis 2:4-3:24, opens with YHWH-Elohim creating the first man, whom he placed in a garden that he planted eastward in Eden. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The man was free to eat from any tree in the garden except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Last of all, the God made a woman from a rib of the man to be a companion for the man. In chapter three, the man and the woman were seduced by the serpent into eating the forbidden fruit, and they were expelled from the garden to prevent them from eating of the tree of life, and thus living forever. Cherubim were placed east of the garden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way of the tree of life. Genesis 2:10-14 lists four rivers in association with the garden of Eden: Pishon, Gihon, Chidekel, and Phirat. It also refers to the land of Cush, translated/interpreted as Ethiopia, but thought by some to equate to Cossaea, a Greek name for the land of the Kassites. These lands lie north of Elam, immediately to the east of ancient Babylon, which, unlike Ethiopia, does lie within the region being described. In Antiquities of the Jews, the first-century Jewish historian Josephus identifies the Pishon as what the Greeks called Ganges and the Geon as the Nile. According to Lars-Ivar Ringbom the paradisus terrestris is located in Takab in northeastern Iran. In Ezekiel 28:12-19 the prophet Ezekiel theson of man sets down God's word against the king of Tyre: the king was the seal of perfection, adorned with precious stones from the day of his creation, placed by God in the garden of Eden on the holy mountain as a guardian cherub. But the king sinned through wickedness and violence, and so he was driven out of the garden and thrown to the earth, where now he is consumed by God's fire: All those who knew you in the nations are appalled at you, you have come to a horrible end and will be no more. According to Terje Stordalen, the Eden in Ezekiel appears to be located in Lebanon. t appears that the Lebanon is an alternative placement in Phoenician myth of the Garden of Eden, and there are connections between paradise, the garden of Eden and the forests of Lebanon within prophetic writings. Edward Lipinski and Peter Kyle McCarter have suggested that the Garden of the gods, the oldest Sumerian version of the Garden of Eden, relates to a mountain sanctuary in the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon ranges. The Garden of Eden is considered to be mythological by most scholars. However, there have been suggestions for its location: at its source of the rivers, while others have looked at the head of the Persian Gulf, in southern Mesopotamia where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers run into the sea; and in the Armenian Highlands or Armenian Plateau.