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Temptation Transformed

The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple

By: Azzan Yadin-Israel

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Temptation Transformed

The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple

By: Azzan Yadin-Israel

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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0226833453

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Scripture and Tradition

Rabbi Akiva and the Triumph of Midrash

By: Azzan Yadin-Israel

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Rabbi Akiva and the Triumph of Midrash

By: Azzan Yadin-Israel

This is a book in rabbinics. It looks at the Rabbi Akiva school of interpetation with respect to Sifra, which comprises the midrashim on Leviticus"--

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812246438

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Scripture as Logos

Rabbi Ishmael and the Origins of Midrash

By: Azzan Yadin,Azzan Yadin-Israel

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Scripture as Logos

Rabbi Ishmael and the Origins of Midrash

By: Azzan Yadin,Azzan Yadin-Israel

The study of midrash—the biblical exegesis, parables, and anecdotes of the Rabbis—has enjoyed a renaissance in recent years. Most recent scholarship, however, has focused on the aggadic or narrative midrash, while halakhic or legal midrash—the exegesis of biblical law—has received relatively little attention. In Scripture as Logos, Azzan Yadin addresses this long-standing need, examining early, tannaitic (70-200 C.E.) legal midrash, focusing on the interpretive tradition associated with the figure of Rabbi Ishmael. This is a sophisticated study of midrashic hermeneutics, growing out of the observation that the Rabbi Ishmael midrashim contain a dual personification of Scripture, which is referred to as both "torah" and "ha-katuv." It is Yadin's significant contribution to note that the two terms are not in fact synonymous but rather serve as metonymies for Sinai on the one hand and, on the other, the rabbinic house of study, the bet midrash. Yadin develops this insight, ultimately presenting the complex but highly coherent interpretive ideology that underlies these rabbinic texts, an ideology that—contrary to the dominant view today—seeks to minimize the role of the rabbinic reader by presenting Scripture as actively self-interpretive. Moving beyond textual analysis, Yadin then locates the Rabbi Ishmael hermeneutic within the religious landscape of Second Temple and post-Temple literature. The result is a series of surprising connections between these rabbinic texts and Wisdom literature, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Church Fathers, all of which lead to a radical rethinking of the origins of rabbinic midrash and, indeed, of the Rabbis as a whole.

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0812237919

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Scripture and Tradition

Rabbi Akiva and the Triumph of Midrash

By: Azzan Yadin-Israel

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Rabbi Akiva and the Triumph of Midrash

By: Azzan Yadin-Israel

This is a book in rabbinics. It looks at the Rabbi Akiva school of interpetation with respect to Sifra, which comprises the midrashim on Leviticus"--

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Temptation Transformed

The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple

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The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple

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Adam, Eve, the Serpent, the Garden of Eden...and the apple. That fruit is one of the most potent symbols in all of human history. It is so closely tied to temptation, knowledge, the "Fall of Man," and sin that it needs no explanation when deployed in everything from art to advertising to movies. It's no secret that the fruit in the Book of Genesis is never actually identified as an apple. So how did we get to this common association? The standard story, repeated since at least the seventeenth century, is that it is due to a Latin pun. But what if that story is wrong? In Temptation Transformed, scholar of religion Azzan Yadin-Israel offers a different story. He examines how the Fall of Man was represented in art form early Christianity through the Renaissance, revealing that the iconography of the apple emerged in twelfth-century France. From there it spread to England, Germany, and the Low Countries, while remaining only a marginal presence in Italy and Spain for centuries. Armed with the when and where, Yadin-Israel then explains why the apple tradition arose and circulated as it did. Surprisingly, the answer is found in the evolution of Europe's vernaculars. Three centuries is a long time to labor under a misconception, especially one that involves the most prominent biblical symbol other than the cross. Through an interdisciplinary engagement of scholastic commentary, Christian iconography, and Fall of Man narratives, Temptation Transformed offers a long-overdue corrective"--

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0226820769

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Scripture as Logos

Rabbi Ishmael and the Origins of Midrash

By: Azzan Yadin,Azzan Yadin-Israel

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Rabbi Ishmael and the Origins of Midrash

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