Dear Colleagues,
The mention of lentils brings to mind a question a Miltonist
friend recently asked me: When did the "fruit" of the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil become "apple"? My colleague
thought fruit-cum-apple appeared first in art, but I seem to
remember from my seminary days a pun in Hebrew or Latin quite
early, perhaps even in Jewish exegisis. Anyone have this at the
tips of their tongues, er, fingers?
Dan Kline
University of Alaska-Anchorage
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