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tradition, the Tree of Knowledge and the eating of its fruit represents the beginning of the mixture of good and evil together. Before that time, the two were separate, and evil had only a nebulous existence in potential. While free choice did exist before eating the fruit, evil existed as an entity
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terms together in order to create a general meaning, so that the phrase "good and evil" would simply imply "everything". This is seen in the Egyptian expression "evil-good", which is normally employed to mean "everything". However, if "tree of the knowledge of good and evil" is to be understood to
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Jewish sources suggest different possible identities for the tree: a fig tree (as fig leaves were used to clothe Adam and Eve after the sin), a grape vine (as "nothing brings wailing to the world like wine"), a stalk of wheat (as "a child does not know how to say Father and Mother until he tastes
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When they ate from this tree, their nakedness appeared to them, and they began to sew together leaves from the Garden for their covering. The Quran mentions the sin as being a 'slip'. Consequently, they repented to God and asked for his forgiveness, and were forgiven. In Islamic tradition, the
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Children of Adam! Let not Satan tempt you as he brought your parents out of the Garden, stripping them of their garments to show them their shameful parts. Surely he sees you, he and his tribe, from where you see them not. We have made the Satans the friends of those who do not
538:(1840–1876) described the seal as having two facing figures (male and female) seated on each side of a tree, holding out their hands to the fruit, while between their backs is a serpent, giving evidence that the 553:
disputes this interpretation, and holds that it is a common image from the period depicting a male deity being worshipped by a woman, with no reason to connect the scene with the Book of Genesis.
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emphasizes the point that when God forbids the man to eat from that particular tree, he says that if he does so, he is "doomed to die." The Hebrew behind this is in a form regularly used in the
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who told Adam and Eve not to eat from its fruit, before lying to them by claiming they would die after tasting it. Later in the story, an instructor is sent from the
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separate from the human psyche, and it was not in human nature to desire it. Eating and internalizing the forbidden fruit changed this, and thus was born the
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mean a tree whose fruit imparts knowledge of everything, this phrase does not necessarily denote a moral concept. This view is held by several scholars.
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taught that the "tree" should be understood both symbolically and as a real tree – similarly to Jerusalem being both a real city and a figure of
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in the Torah, which deal primarily with physical objects wherein good and evil are mixed together. The sin of the Tree caused God's presence (
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never refers to the tree as the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil" but rather typically refers to it as "the tree" or (in the words of
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A Theocentric Interpretation of הדעת טוב ורע: The Knowledge of Good and Evil as the Knowledge for Administering Reward and Punishment
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Given the context of disobedience to God, other interpretations of the implications of this phrase also demand consideration.
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appeared to them, telling them the only reason God forbade them to eat from the tree was that they would become
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According to one source, Eve also fed the fruit to the animals, leading to their mortality as well.
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forbidden fruit is considered wheat or barley, not an apple as within Western Christian tradition.
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religion held that the tree was entirely positive or even sacred. Per this saga, it was the
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command, and thereby came to detract from it, as it is written: "Do not add to His Words" (
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In Christian tradition, consuming the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil was
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matches the etrog fruit's beautiful appearance, or else the etrog tree's allegedly tasty
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However, there are myriad modern scholarly interpretations regarding the term
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In Western Christian art, the fruit of the tree is commonly depicted as the
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rectifies the sin of the Tree and causes the Shechinah to return.
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In Judaism and Christianity, a tree in the Garden of Eden
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Tree of knowledge of good and evil
Tree of Knowledge (disambiguation)

Lucas Cranach the Elder
Judaism
Christianity
Tiberian Hebrew
romanized
[ʕesˤhadaʕaθtˤovwɔrɔʕ]
Latin
Garden of Eden
Genesis
tree of life
God
Adam
Eve
serpent
forbidden fruit
expels them from the garden
merism
literary device
opposite
Robert Alter
Hebrew Bible
etrog
Genesis 3:6
bark
Jewish
yetzer hara
Rashi

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