Re: 7-Foot Robot Used in Black Sea Expedition

From: Martyn Harrison (nospam_at_spammers.of.the.world.unite)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 17:06:00 GMT

Apparently on date Wed, 3 Nov 2004 10:51:58 -0500, "Polik" <polik@rogers.com>
said:

>"Franz Gnaedinger" <frgn@bluemail.ch> wrote in message
>>
>> Peter T. Daniels: you make me loose my former respect for you.
<snip>
>> edus that made me post the way I do. I know well that the fruit
>> involved was not an apple, yet it is called an apple, and was
>> called an apple in almost all translations of the Bible, which
>
>Interestingly enough, the Hungarian word for "tomato" is the same as that
>for "paradise" , namely "paradicsom", arising from an early belief that the
>fruit of which Eve ate was, in fact, a tomato.
>
>Equally interesting, the word appears to be a loan from some Iranian
>language although tomatoes are indisputably New World fruit.
>
>In any event, the fruit was not called an apple anywhere in the Genesis.
>The representation of the fruit of the tree as an apple is a later European
>invention.

Agreeing that all the versions of the bible I've seen refer to it as a "fruit",
I'm quite interested in knowing where this story actually came from.

Like the flood, I'm assuming the story is Mesopotamian in origin and there's a
"shrub" of life mentioned in Gilgamesh, rather than two trees, one of knowledge
and one of life. Is this the source of the biblical trees? Do we have an
evolution of how the story turned from one to the other? Or is there a
different source?

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/sa/SAIRC/1997/50.html

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