Yadin - Israel Azzan - Temptation Transformed The Story Of How The Forbidden Fruit Became An Apple - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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. 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. 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.
Title: Temptation Transformed The Story Of How The Forbidden Fruit Became An Apple
Author(s): Yadin - Israel Azzan
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226820767
Pages: 232 Pages, 12 Color Plates, 37 Halftones
Publication Date: 1/10/2023
Category: History Of Religion