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Temptation Transformed
- The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple
Engelsk Paperback
Temptation Transformed
- The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple
Engelsk Paperback

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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.   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.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
232
ISBN-13:
9780226833453
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
0226833453
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Udg. Dato:
8 mar 2024
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
227mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
8 mar 2024
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