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Greek writings refer to it as Pentecost (Acts 2:1, 20:16 1 Cor. (The Festival of Harvest is also referred to as the Festival of Weeks (Tob. His provision was to be celebrated with the first crops of the harvest in the Festival of Harvest (Exod. The wheat berry has the bran, germ (embryo), and endosperm, making it a wholewheat kernel and dietary source of nutrients and fiber (Shewry & Hey, 2015).Īs a staple food source in ancient times, wheat was included in the worship of Yahweh as the Israelites depended on Him to supply it. But the wheat kernel is technically a dry fruit that contains a seed, classified as a caryopsis (Mauseth, 2014). When most people think of wheat, they think of long stalks of grain. Collectively, these seven species provide food throughout the year, making Wisdom’s offer to eat of Her fruit a continual invitation not limited to any specific time of harvest (Sir. These foods were in abundant supply, and most were incorporated into the national worship of Yahweh. 8:7-8: wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives, and honey.

The seven species are the produce of the Promised Land found in Deut. Grapes don’t grow on trees, they grow on vines, and their leaves are not like the carob tree or the fir tree.Įnoch’s description, along with the reputable teachings of Jewish thought and other traditions, lead this writer to believe the tree of wisdom did not bear one type of produce. Interesting also is that the fruit of this tree was compared to grape clusters. Their trees, however, only grow to be 50 feet tall, so it is very unlikely that Enoch confused the two.

Carobs are pods that are normally used for animal feed, though they can also be consumed by humans (Luke 15:16). They are also evergreen, like carob trees. 6:5, NKJV), and fir and cedar were used in the building of the Temple (1 Kings 6:15). David and the nation played music before the Lord made of instruments of fir wood (2 Sam. Both fir trees (rendered “cypress” in many translations) and cedar trees contributed to worship. Growing up to 80 meters tall (262 feet), it is closely related to the cedar tree. Another manuscript of this text reads verse 4 as “That tree is in height like the fir…” Fir trees are known for their height. This description proves the tree of wisdom was no ordinary tree. 5 And I said, “This tree is beautiful and its appearance beautiful and pleasant!” 6 Then the holy angel Raphael, who was with me, responded to me and said, “This very thing is the tree of wisdom from which your old father and aged mother, they who are your precursors, ate and came to know wisdom and (consequently) their eyes were opened and they realized that they were naked and (so) they were expelled from the garden.” 4 It looked like the colors of the carob tree, its fruit like very beautiful grape clusters, and the fragrance of this tree travels and reaches afar. And the tree of wisdom, of which one eats and knows great wisdom, (was among them). It reads:ģ And I came to the garden of righteousness and saw beyond those trees many (other) large (ones) growing there-their fragrance sweet, large ones, with much elegance, and glorious. With such a collective of highly reputable and valuable insight, a closer look at the tree of wisdom described in the book of Enoch is warranted. (An etrog is a citrus fruit that today’s lemons stem from.) Other conclusions are that it may have been a pomegranate (Craft, 2017), a banana, or an etrog (Zivotofsky, 2017). Rabbi Meir, a second-century sage, taught the fruit from the tree of wisdom was a grapevine (Newman, 2017), while Judah ha-Nasi, another second-century rabbi, claimed the fruit was wheat ("Berakhot 40a:14", n.d.).

The general consensus is that it was either an apple or a fig, however some Jewish teachings offer different interpretations. 5:12).Īs previously mentioned, the specific identification of this fruit has long been debated. Their disobedience brought death and was the entrance of sin into the world (Rom. As a physical representation of the Holy Spirit, it bore the fruit of which the first humans were instructed not to eat (Gen.

The tree of wisdom has been identified as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that stood with the tree of life in the center of the garden of Eden (Gen.