Garden of Eden

  • Gan Eden

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    But You, Lord, are a shield around me, My glory, and the One who lifts my head.  Psalm 3:3  NASB Shield – You wouldn’t know it from the English, but the Hebrew word translated “shield” evokes something primeval.  The root is gānan, “ to defend.”  Its derivative is first found in Genesis 2:8.  That derivative is, of course, găn,…

  • The Return to Neverland

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    The Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed. Genesis 2:8 NASB Eden – Eliade’s summary makes us pause. He describes our cultural mythology about the God’s garden as “the ‘nostalgia for Eden,’” a place where there is “no conflict between the pleasures…