What’s the likely identity of the “forbidden fruit” described in the Bible’s Garden of Eden, which Eve is said to have eaten and then shared with Adam? If your guess is “an apple,” you’re probably wrong.
The Hebrew Bible doesn’t actually specify what type of fruit Adam and Eve ate. “We don’t know what it was. There’s no indication it was an apple,” Rabbi Ari Zivotofsky, a professor of Brain Science at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University, told Live Science. Read More.