From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 12:19:42 MDT
gts wrote:
> ...It is very interesting that the Old Testament calls bread the "Staff of
>
>Life." No doubt this is because agriculture helped millions of ancient
>people avoid starvation. Bread was "Mannah from Heaven" to the ancients, who
>faced starvation perhaps due to their over-hunting of the wild-game upon
>which they had evolved. But starvation is hardly a problem for most of us
>moderns living in the first and second worlds. Gluttony is our new modern
>enemy. The Staff of Life has become the Staff of Death.
>
>-gts
>
An important side note, however, is that the flour that was used was
whole grain flour (probably stone ground) so that it would have provided
many more vitamins and minerals than a non-enriched white flour based bread.
Also, "Mannah from Heaven" was something else. Something that can be
found by those knowledgeable about the desert, and which won't keep.
The hypothesis that I've heard was that it was either bugs, or some part
of or extrusion from bugs. (Think of honey-dew ants before rejecting
this out of hand.) Now *that's* a paleolithic diet.
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