RE: The Origin of the Garden of Eden Story
April 22, 2013 at 9:06 am
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2013 at 9:12 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(April 22, 2013 at 3:39 am)Dragonetti Wrote: Why is the fruit of knowledge always portrayed as an Apple?May have just been a pun or misunderstanding on/off the word malum (don't have accent scirpt) than means both "evil" and "apple" - the apple meaning a greek loanword and loose homonym.
The notion that it may have been a pomegranate (or any other specific fruit at all) is as shaky as the notion that it was an apple. Mostly because it was neither -and we have no idea as to what sort of garden or fruit the authors would have referenced (and allowing for pizazz - they could have shaken it up however they liked to please the audience). We might point to what is native in the region...but what region is this story actually from anyway?
(I personally enjoy the comparisons and theories about the garden of eden and the hanging gardens - both mind you, to be found nowhere in evidence, we just have cuneiform and reliefs. If there were such a garden, and it was as widely known as it is described- then the narrator would almost certainly be invoking it's image in telling the tale...and it definitely would have been a forbidden garden, a place where one cannot return.)
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