On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:37:28PM +0200, Geoff Thurman wrote: > It also seems that the apple in the garden of Eden might 'in fact' have > been a pomegranate, in which case it does go back rather a long way. It puzzles me where these theories come from. The Bible doesn't say it's an apple or any other kind of fruit - it's just a "fruit". The only description is that it looks good and is good to eat - which applies to pretty well any fruit. "malum" in Latin means "apple", also more generally "fruit", and also "bad", "evil"... wonder if the whole thing started as a translation error? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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