Dr. Dylan Johnson

Right.

Well, we're not sure.

But what it almost certainly is not is an apple because you ever visit the Middle East and you go to these places, you'll notice a sparsity of apple trees.

It's not a very conducive climate to growing apples.

Right.

So just put yourself in kind of a Middle Eastern environment.

climatic context and start to think about possibilities.

So my go-to is a fig.

It's a tempting, delicious item.

Dates, I mean, something sweet, something that you would want to consume.

I don't know enough about the arboreal realities of the Middle East to fire off too many other trees that grow there, but those are kind of my ideas, right?

So think in terms of that.

And of course, it doesn't really matter.

The Hebrew just calls it a fruit.

It's a fruit.

It's a fruit.

Never gets any more detailed than that.

And of course, it's a symbol.

So it's a symbol of accessing this characteristic that we'll come to learn of wisdom, knowledge, and then on the other side of eternal life, which are the two trees offer those two options.

So