[syriacus]

Actually, the Sumerians named the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia as "Eden". They wrote it down long before Abram became Abraham.

That makes sense.

And Abraham, being from Ur, probably would have learned the same place names as his fellow Mesopotamians.

[muawiyah]

And, going one step further, Abraham didn't speak a Semitic language ~ he spoke Sumerian.

Which means, of course, that along the way to final liberation in Egypt under Moses, someone translated the original Divinely revealed text!

I notice in reading through those really old stories that rabbinical comments are woven through the text too ~ and these change the meaning.