The idea of the fruit being an apple came from a misunderstanding of the Vulgate Bible. The word malum is a homonym that can mean "evil" or "apple." So malum was used in Gen 2:17 for evil, someone thought it meant apple.
A man who had been employed in quality control decided to change his life. He entered a monastery. He was sent to a room where monks were copying manuscripts. He was given a rather new manuscript to copy. He asked the brother in charge, "Wouldn't it be better to be copying from an older...
Did Hammurapi actually exist? How certain are we? Or Shuppilulumas? Or Socrates? How does the evidence for the existence of Jesus of Nazareth compare to most of the other figures who we take for granted in antiquity?
Maybe you should have read the first post. I didn't refer to the Qumran text of Isaiah at all. My point is that Matthew uses the same interpretive method used at Qumran, in their sectarian texts. It is called the pesher method. It is found in 1QpHab, the commentary on Habakkuk found in Cave...
He is not translating anything. He is using the Greek Old Testament, the scripture used by Hellenistic Jews and Christians of the day. During his time, parthenos meant virgin. He is using an interpretive method common to his time. He reads the Old Testament passage in terms of what is going...
I have scanned most of the posts and didn't see the answer I am going to give you. Matthew picks up the LXX parthenos from Isaiah, which in his day refers to a virgin (the Parthenos in Athens is the temple to the virgin goddess Athena). Everyone seems to want to require Matthew to use the...