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…
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 Garden in Eden – “The good ol’ days.” That’s what we really want, isn’t it? Those days that didn’t seem so stressful, so chaotic, so confusing. What we really want is…
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 Planted – YHVH planted a Garden. The verb is nata (to plant, to fix, to establish). In Hebrew agricultural life, this verb is very common. But when it is used to…
The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man who He had formed. Genesis 2:8 NASB The boys had a day off school today, so I got to stay home. Which meant I got to go out and dig a considerable number of weeds out of my…
Y plantó el SEÑOR Dios un huerto hacia el oriente, en Edén; Génesis 2:8 Edén – Cuando Rousseau terminó la remodelación del Jardín del Edén, todos creímos que esta palabra hebrea se refería al paraíso tropical repleto de plantas exóticas y deleites eróticos. Es hora de dejar atrás esas imágenes y que veamos la realidad…
and YHWH planted a garden in Eden Genesis 2:8 Eden – By the time Rousseau finished refurbishing the Garden of Eden, we all thought this Hebrew word referred to a tropical paradise filled with exotic plants and erotic delights. It’s time to leave all those images behind and look at the real word play involved…
Y plantó el SEÑOR Dios un huerto hacia el oriente, en Edén; y puso allí al hombre que había formado. Gen 2:8 Puso – Uno de los problemas más grandes que tenemos con la lectura de la Biblia es que ya nos sabemos las historias. Usualmente, eso no nos permite leer lo que el texto…
The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed. Genesis 2:8 Placed – One of the biggest problems we have with reading the Bible is that we know the stories. That usually allows us not to read what the text actually says, but…
