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I was trying to understand why this would be. Is it an adam and eve and the serpent thing? because the apple has a bite out of it? Sorry if this is a dumb ques

• seanhunter 3y ago
  Probably and I have heard that same thing from certain strains of evangelical. The irony is that the "Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge" (that Adam and Eve ate in the story) isn't said to be an apple anywhere in Genesis. That's just something that artists did when they depicted the scene later. They should have chosen a much more decadent fruit like a fig imo.
  • seanhunter 3y ago
    Interesting. Wikipedia[1] suggests that the Jewish tradition has fig as one of the possibilities, alongside grape, wheat and etrog. It says there is some possibility that the use of an apple in art and literature later is a pun because the latin noun for "apple" (malum) is also one of the forms of "malus" or evil (opposite of "bonus", meaning good). So by eating the malum, they unleashed malum (evil). Or something like that[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_the_knowledge_of_good_and_evil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_the_knowledge_of_good_... [2] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/04/30/526069512/paradise-lost-how-the-apple-became-the-forbidden-fruit https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/04/30/526069512/pa...