Archaeologica.org

archaeologist wrote:

link is to page of the electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary considered the most up to date resource of its kind anyhwere on Earth, which proves that the word Eden is attested from as early as 3000bce

i would have liked to explored this source but i see that the links are very limited in nature and one cannot investigate it at their leisure.

could you post a general link that allows exploration please.

for about the 50th time

Sumerian is a language isolate, meaning that it has no relatives living or dead (though there have been unsuccessful attempts to connect Sumerian to a number of languages).

it cannot be determined that it was the original language on earth

Nothing wrong with that, but if one of us were to post a topic on the search for Noahs' Ark, I think it would draw a lot of ridicule.

In Sumerian the word “Eden” meant simply “fertile plain.” The word “Adam” also existed in cuneiform, meaning something like “settlement on the plain.” Although both words were set down first in Sumerian, along with place names like Ur and Uruk, they are not Sumerian in origin. They are older. A brilliant Assyriologist named Benno Landsberger advanced the theory in 1943 that these names were all linguistic remnants of a pre-Sumerian people who had already named rivers, cities—and even some specific trades like potter and coppersmith—before the Sumerians appeared.

Long before Genesis was written, Zarins believes, the physical Eden had vanished under the waters of the Gulf. Man had lived happily there. But then, about 5000 to 4000 B.C. came a worldwide phenomenon called the Flandrian Transgression, which caused a sudden rise in sea level. The Gulf began to fill with water and actually reached its modern-day level about 4000 B.C., having swallowed Eden and all the settlements along the coastline of the Gulf. But it didn't stop there. It kept right on rising, moving upward into the southern legions of today's Iraq and Iran.

The Sumerians always claimed that their ancestors came 'out of the sea,' and I believe they literally did,” says Zarins. “They retreated northward into Mesopotamia from the encroaching waters of the Gulf, where they had lived for thousands of years.”

Monotheism was first consolidated in the nation of Judah by King Josiah (reigned ca. 641-609 BCE

It seems inescapable that, to arrive at the creation mythology articulated by the postexilic authors of Genesis, the Hebrews conflated their ancestral Sumerian cosmogony and cultural inheritance

Thus there are three principal permutations of the myth. In the first, the Sumerian version, a mortal Adam is in an earthly Eden, and a life-giving fruit is not eaten, due to divine trickery. In the Judeo-Christian version, an immortal Adam is in an earthly Eden with two fruit trees, one giving the immortal life of a god, the other a forbidden one giving the vision of a god, eaten at the instigation of a diabolical serpent (divine trickery).

During the Flandrian transgression (14.000 to 7.000 years BP) the sea had invaded the former small sedimentary basin from the east and south areas, favouring the gradual deposition of sands and interbedded sandy coquinas. At the end of the Flandrian transgression (7.000 years BP), regressive events would have produced the Cabo Frio plain, the beach ridges and the intern marine barriers, forming a number of smalls lagoons into the last two morphologicals units.

The lowering of the sea level, related to the regression, continuous till reaching the negative 25 meters level (in 6.500 years BP) and the sedimentary basin of the actual lagoon become exposed to a new erosion process. Mainly, as a consequence of an increase of humidity related to heavy rains, the fluvial system coming from the northwest was reactivated, producing a strong erosion of the lagoon sediments along an east-west oriented channel showing a canyon like morphology.

A new transgression of the sea, known as Dunkerquian, started at 6000 years BP, reaching its maximun altitude of 2 meters (in 4.500 years BP), was followed by a regressive event at 3.500 years BP. These transgressive and regressive action of the sea would have produced the deposition of sandy sediments as external barriers and the closure of the connection of the canyon with the sea. The barriers are those known as Restinga de Massambaba and Cabo Frio, that caused the formation of the Araruama lagoon with more than 15 meters depth and linkage with the sea throughout the Itarujú 2-4 m depth tide-channel. At the bottom of main channel of the remainder canyon, modern laggonal organic muds have been detected.