Everyone knows that the fruit Eve was tempted to eat in the Garden of Eden was an apple – or was it? This week, Danièle speaks with Azzan Yadin-Israel about the original fruit of original sin, how written culture and art worked together to transform it, and why it took centuries to settle on the apple.
Everyone knows that the fruit Eve was tempted to eat in the Garden of Eden was an apple – or was it? This week, Danièle speaks with Azzan Yadin-Israel about the original fruit of original sin, how written culture and art worked together to transform it, and why it took centuries to settle on the apple.
Azzan Yadin-Israel is a Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. Click here to view his Academia.edu page. His new books are Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple and Intuitive Vocabulary: Ancient Greek.
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Top Image: Detail from The Fall of Man and The Lamentation by Hugo van der Goes, 15th century – Wikimedia Commons
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