Knowra Garden of Eden Garden of Eden The paradise in the biblical book of Genesis where Adam and Eve live before their expulsion. Its story links human origins, divine command, temptation, and mortality.
Book of Genesis : The first book of the Bible, recounting creation, ancestral stories, and the origins of Israel. Genesis 2–3 contains the Eden narrative.
Genesis 2 : The Genesis chapter describing humanity’s creation, the garden, and the formation of woman. It introduces Eden as a cultivated home before the transgression.
Ancient Near Eastern creation myths : Traditional stories from the ancient Near East explaining the origins of the world and humanity. They provide cultural parallels for Genesis’s account of human beginnings.
Fall of Man : The Christian doctrine that humanity’s first sin brought corruption and separation from God. It names the theological meaning many Christians give to the Eden transgression.
Adam and Eve : The first human couple in the Genesis creation narratives. They inhabit Eden and are expelled after eating the forbidden fruit.
Genesis 3 : The Genesis chapter recounting the serpent, the forbidden fruit, and the expulsion from Eden. It narrates the events that end life in the garden.
Enuma Elish : A Babylonian creation epic in which the god Marduk establishes cosmic order. Its creation through divine conflict contrasts with Genesis’s garden-centered human origins.
Paradise : An ideal place of happiness, abundance, and freedom from suffering. Eden is a foundational biblical image of paradise.
Tree of Life : A mythical tree whose fruit grants or sustains life. In Eden, access to its fruit is barred after the couple’s transgression.
Forbidden fruit : The fruit eaten by Adam and Eve in defiance of God’s command in Genesis. Eating it triggers the judgment and expulsion that close the Eden story.
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