Bananen kommen in der Bibel nicht vor – und das ist gut zu wissen

Bananas are not in the Bible. Not once, in any translation working honestly from the original languages — and not because the writers had better things to mention. The banana is a plant of tropical Asia. It had not reached the eastern Mediterranean when Scripture was written, and the people who wrote it had never seen one. Are bananas mentioned in the Bible? No. The fruit of Scripture belongs to a specific and rather small landscape: the fig, the olive,…