2006-06-21 20:23:34 · 14 answers · asked by RAJA R 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Popularly, the fruit has been identified as an apple (perhaps as a Latin pun of 'malus' sounding like 'evil' and 'apple'), although the Bible does not identify the fruit as an apple. Judaism teaches that the fruit may have been either grape, fig, wheat, or citron.
In the philosophical novel Ishmael, the story of eating the forbidden fruit is described as a metaphor for the loss of quality of life caused by the change from hunter-gatherer culture to an agriculture-based society.
The term "forbidden fruit" is a popular metaphor that describes any object of desire whose appeal is a direct result of the knowledge that it cannot or should not be obtained. The phrase comes from the Bible, where it is the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil eaten by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. According to the narrative, as a result of eating this fruit, Adam and Eve lost their innocence, began to know good and evil, and were exiled from the garden where they were forced to adopt agriculture for a living. The concept of "knowing" good and evil can be best understood as being emotionally entangled with the struggle of determing the difference.
2006-06-21 20:28:30 · answer #1 · answered by jm51376 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While in most depictions an apple is used some believe it to have been a quince whatever that is? In the movie White Men Can't Jump, Rosie Perez's character Gloria Clemente was on Jeopardy and it was the response to "Adam and Eve dined on this forbidden fruit". The quince is a relative to the apple and pear, perhaps that is why an apple is commonly mistaken.
2006-06-21 20:30:30 · answer #2 · answered by jessygalvin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This fruit is commonly depicted in pictures and paintings as an apple. Noone has seen or documented what fruit this is in the Bible.
2006-06-21 20:25:22 · answer #3 · answered by 2HOT2HOLD 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those scriptures have a dual meaning. I don't know what fruit it was. The Bible says there was only one of the trees. But the second meaning was that she could be like God by deciding for herself what was right and what was wrong.
2006-06-21 20:28:10 · answer #4 · answered by euhmerist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apple I am told by some. Others believe that he had S*X with her. Who knows? I was not there. What ever he gave her, it was not good. I think people something worry about the wrong things.
2006-06-21 20:32:18 · answer #5 · answered by blah blah blah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible doesn't say, but it was John Milton in "Paradise Lost" who first stated that the fruit was an apple.
2006-06-21 21:39:52 · answer #6 · answered by diasporas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An apple
2006-06-21 20:26:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
apple
2006-06-21 20:25:33 · answer #8 · answered by scottie2h2004 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Bible doesn't say. but apparently it looked good enough to eat.
2006-06-21 20:29:25 · answer #9 · answered by ♥Poetic1♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
must've been an apple with an e
2006-06-21 20:27:24 · answer #10 · answered by rama d 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋