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Eden, in the Bible

Eden, in the Bible.

1 Son of Joah.

2 Priest. Perhaps this is the same as (1.)

3 See Eden, Garden of Eden, Garden of, in the Bible, first home to humankind. In it were the trees of life and of the knowledge of good and evil. Having eaten the forbidden fruit of the latter tree, Adam and Eve were banished from the garden and God's presence.
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4 Unidentified trading center, possibly in Mesopotamia.

5 Place somewhere near Damascus.

Eden, rivers, England and Scotland

Eden, name of several rivers in England and Scotland. The principal one rises in Cumbria, N England, and flows 65 mi (105 km) NW past Carlisle Carlisle, city (1991 pop. 72,006) and district, Cumbria, NW England, near the junction of the Caldew, Eden, and Petteril rivers. The city of Carlisle is an important rail center.
..... Click the link for more information. , into Solway Firth. The Vale of Eden is a rich farming region.
Eden1
Sir (Robert) Anthony, Earl of Avon. 1897--1977, British Conservative statesman; foreign secretary (1935--38; 1940--45; 1951--55) and prime minister (1955--57). He resigned after the controversy caused by the occupation of the Suez Canal zone by British and French forces (1956)
Eden2
Old Testament the garden in which Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation
Eden
earthly garden of luxury; abode of Adam and Eve. [O.T.: Genesis 2:8]
See : Paradise
Eden - A concurrent, object-oriented, distributed operating system and language, based on remote procedure call. It has both synchronous and asynchronous message passing.

["The Eden System: A Technical Review", G. Almes et al, IEEE Trans Soft Eng SE-11(1):43-59 (Jan 1985)].
Eden 

a river in Great Britain. Length, 153 km. It originates in the Pennines, flowing between them and the Cumbrians in a broad valley and falling into the Solway Firth of the Irish Sea. The Eden has an abundance of water in winter. It is navigable to the city of Carlisle.
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Second, the Edenic state was a superior environment in which innocent humanity would have flourished to the fullness of its capacity.
The transformation of reason in Genesis 2-3: two options for ... by Saler, Robert / Currents in Theology and Mission
One stunning instance is his painting Man in a Tree (1998), in which Reinaldo Arenas, the gay Cuban writer who wrote Before Night Falls, is represented as a suffering, Christ-like figure offering his purple passion flower from an Edenic bower of leaves.
Art and social criticism by Langer, Cassandra / The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
Finally, the Miami City Ballet took on Twyla Tharp’s epic, idiosyncratic and Edenic In the Upper Room (1992), in which sneakers meet pointe shoes and do battle—which in Tharpdom means that they mate, leaving everyone, onstage, in the house, in the wings, spent but gratified.
Villella's Heroic Homecoming: Miami Burnishes Balanchine by Nancy Dalva / The New York Observer
 
 
 
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