It originated in southern Arabia and was used in medicine beginning with the Sumerians. The Greeks believed Ge changed her son Sykeus into the first tree bearing it during the War of the Titans. The prophet Isaiah makes a poultice from it to cure Hezekiah; the Prophet Muhammad says it is the one fruit he would take with him into paradise. The Talmud identifies it as the Forbidden Fruit because its leaves were used to make the first clothing; Jesus, in his only destructive miracle, curses and kills a tree that refuses to bear it. FTP, name this fruit often served ground
It originated in southern Arabia and was used in medicine beginning with the Sumerians. The Greeks believed Ge changed her son Sykeus into the first tree bearing it during the War of the Titans. The prophet Isaiah makes a poultice from it to cure Hezekiah; the Prophet Muhammad says it is the one fruit he would take with him into paradise. The Talmud identifies it as the Forbidden Fruit because its leaves were used to make the first clothing; Jesus, in his only destructive miracle, curses and kills a tree that refuses to bear it. FTP, name this fruit often served ground and dried in pastries such as newtons.
It originated in southern Arabia and was used in medicine beginning with the Sumerians.
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