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Temptation Transformed - The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple (Hardcover)
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Temptation Transformed - The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple (Hardcover)
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A "brisk and entertaining" (Wall Street Journal) journey into the
mystery behind why the forbidden fruit became an apple, upending an
explanation that stood for centuries. Â How did the apple,
unmentioned by the Bible, become the dominant symbol of temptation,
sin, and the Fall? Temptation Transformed pursues this mystery
across art and religious history, uncovering where, when, and why
the forbidden fruit became an apple. Â Azzan Yadin-Israel
reveals that Eden’s fruit, once thought to be a fig or a grape,
first appears as an apple in twelfth-century French art. He then
traces this image back to its source in medieval storytelling.
Though scholars often blame theologians for the apple, accounts of
the Fall written in commonly spoken languages—French, German, and
English—influenced a broader audience than cloistered Latin
commentators. Azzan Yadin-Israel shows that, over time, the words
for “fruit” in these languages narrowed until an apple in the
Garden became self-evident. A wide-ranging study of early Christian
thought, Renaissance art, and medieval languages, Temptation
Transformed offers an eye-opening revisionist history of a central
religious icon.
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