"Evil Apple" "Mălum Mālum"
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 8:19 AM
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Gypsy Scholar
Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
Wednesday, July 03, 2019
About Me
- Name: Horace Jeffery Hodges
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
I am a retired professor. I last taught at Ewha Womans University, mostly composition, research writing, and cultural issues, but also the occasional graduate seminar on Gnosticism and Johannine theology and the occasional undergraduate course on European history. My doctorate is in history (U.C. Berkeley), with emphasis on religion and science. My thesis is on John's gospel and Gnosticism. I'm also an award-winning writer, and I recommend my novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, to anyone interested. I'm originally from the Arkansas Ozarks, but my academic career -- funded through doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships (e.g., Fulbright, Naumann, Lady Davis) -- has taken me through Texas, California, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Israel and has landed me in Seoul, South Korea. I've also traveled to Mexico, visited much of Europe, including Moscow, and touched down briefly in a few East Asian countries. Hence: "Gypsy Scholar."
6 Comments:
Laugh out loud! EVIL APPLE? There's no written word on the Holy Bible, its all European origin of paintings and sculptures, that some artisan has been doing for fictional art in the Evil Apple. If you read the Genesis its only the "forbidden fruit" of Tree of Knowledge. We just need to share our thoughts... *Bones*
The fruit was sometimes a peach, perhaps for the pun on sin in French.
Jeffery Hodges
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Hmmm. From a francophone perspective, "peach/sin" doesn't make for much of a pun because of the distinct difference in pronunciation:
pêche/péché
"Fisherman/sinner," however, is more promising because the respective pronunciations are much closer:
pêcheur/pécheur
Then there's pêcher/pécher, i.e., to fish/to sin.
Interesting that, despite the above-noted differences in pronunciation, an association grew between peaches and sin. I wonder where the association came from. An exploration of etymology at Etymonline.com shows the words peach and sin come from distinctly different roots.
For more puns, look up peach and impeach.
Jeffery Hodges
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Yes, I looked those up, too, and was surprised to see the root for "impeach" isn't the Latin peccare, "to sin." I had thought that a cluster of words was related: impeach, unimpeachable, impeccable, etc. Guess I was wrong.
Also interesting: there is a verb to peach, meaning "to inform against." I learn something new every night.
Just keep on reading my blog, you'll keep on learning each day.
Jeffery Hodges
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