Editing Paradise (section)

===Hebrew Bible===
[[Image:Nicolas Poussin - Le Printemps.jpg|thumb|[[Nicolas Poussin]], ''Four seasons of paradise'', 1660–1664]]
The Hebrew word ''pardes'' appears only in the post-Exilic period (after 538 BCE); it occurs in the [[Song of Songs]] 4:13, [[Ecclesiastes]] 2:5, and [[Ezra–Nehemiah|Nehemiah]] 2:8, in each case meaning "park" or "garden", the original Persian meaning of the word, where it describes the royal parks of [[Cyrus the Great]] by [[Xenophon]] in [[Anabasis (Xenophon)|Anabasis]].

In [[Second Temple]] era Judaism, "paradise" came to be associated with the [[Garden of Eden]] and [[World to Come|prophecies of restoration of Eden]], and transferred to [[heaven]].

In the apocryphal [[Apocalypse of Moses]], [[Adam and Eve]] are expelled from paradise (rather than Eden) after the [[Fall of man]], having been tricked by the [[Serpents in the Bible#Eden|serpent]]. After the death of Adam, the [[Archangel Michael]] carries Adam's body to be buried in Paradise, in the [[Third Heaven]].