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 possi

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...