هل كانت الثمرة المحرمة تفاحة؟ الكتاب المقدس لا يذكر ذلك أبداً، وحواء أكلت قبل آدم

The Bible does not say what kind of fruit it was. Genesis calls it “the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden”, and the apple is a later Western tradition. The rabbis proposed a fig, grapes, wheat or a citron. Eve ate first and “gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.” One of those rabbis thought the silence was deliberate. God, he taught, has never revealed the tree and never will,…