Israel’s Anti-BDS Law Backfires
A wrongheaded retreat.
May 2, 2017
A Latin pun and John Milton.
While the Talmud suggests a number of possible identities for the forbidden fruit of Genesis—including a fig, a date, a grape, and a kernel of wheat—not one of them is the apple. Nonetheless, most Western readers of the Bible imagine it to be just that. Nina Martyris describes the transformation of the generic “fruit” of the original Hebrew text:
A wrongheaded retreat.
Where is the international outcry?
Whether or not it intends to.
A Latin pun and John Milton.
Threatened by rising intolerance.
While the Talmud suggests a number of possible identities for the forbidden fruit of Genesis—including a fig, a date, a grape, and a kernel of wheat—not one of them is the apple. Nonetheless, most Western readers of the Bible imagine it to be just that. Nina Martyris describes the transformation of the generic “fruit” of the original Hebrew text:
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