Don_Dickle to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 24 days agoTIL although the idea that Adam and Eve ate an apple is common, the Book of Genesis never mentions the identity of the forbidden fruit.www.rutgers.eduexternal-linkmessage-square102fedilinkarrow-up1384arrow-down111cross-posted to: todayilearned@lemmit.online
arrow-up1373arrow-down1external-linkTIL although the idea that Adam and Eve ate an apple is common, the Book of Genesis never mentions the identity of the forbidden fruit.www.rutgers.eduDon_Dickle to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 24 days agomessage-square102fedilinkcross-posted to: todayilearned@lemmit.online
minus-square@Infynis@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglish25•edit-224 days agoApple is probably the most common interpretation because a lot of languages use it as kind of a vague fruit term, and the Bible has been retranslated and reinterpreted roughly one million times. The French call potatoes apples
minus-squareDeebsterlinkfedilinkEnglish19•24 days agoIncluding English: æppel meant any kind of fruit, which is why you have names like pineapple and elephant apple.
minus-square@GregorGizeh@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglish12•24 days agoThe french call potatoes earth apples. Pomme de terre. It is also an older german term for them, though I believe austria still uses it: Erdapfel.
minus-square@Jeeve65@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkEnglish3•24 days agoSame in Dutch: aardappel (aard=earth, appel=apple)
Apple is probably the most common interpretation because a lot of languages use it as kind of a vague fruit term, and the Bible has been retranslated and reinterpreted roughly one million times. The French call potatoes apples
Including English: æppel meant any kind of fruit, which is why you have names like pineapple and elephant apple.
The french call potatoes earth apples. Pomme de terre.
It is also an older german term for them, though I believe austria still uses it: Erdapfel.
Same in Dutch: aardappel (aard=earth, appel=apple)
Not to be confused with the Pferdeapfel.