Fig trees are referenced many times in the Bible. After eating the forbidden fruit (possibly a fig), Adam and Eve used fig leaves to cover their modesty and shame. In one of the stories of the New ...
I'm not sure any society was ever really egalitarian, but there is a sort of egalitarianism in the Hebrew Bible: "Every man under his own fig tree, equal in the eyes of Yahweh." It's interesting ...
Jesus also then curses a fig tree and the two stories are woven together, in Mark, in such a way that the symbolism carries over from one to the next. Jesus is standing against the Temple ...
But it is no ordinary tree. The majestic fig tree, which is 100 years old and towers over a section of Waiyaki Way in the west of Nairobi, had been sentenced to death to make way for an expressway ...
We happily had numerous fig tree sellers and educators on hand to encourage others to begin their own journey into the art and fun of cultivation their own tree.” The joy of growing fig trees ...