What Did People Eat and Drink in Roman Palestine?

Biblical Archaeology Review ^ | April 23, 2019 | Megan Sauter

[jmacusa]

Right? And lets hear it for hornets inspiring fashion! All the Frenchies have been wearing Yellow Jackets for the past 23 weeks.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Interesting article about carob (locust or locust tree). It really sounds like a wonder food.

A coincidental aside. I was hiking with our dog yesterday in the hillside and met a woman who was hiking with her beautiful Australian Shepherd. The dogs were having great fun frolicking on the trail so we chatted a bit. Her dog was named "Theo," short for "theobromine."

So I'm reading the Wikipedia entry for Carob a moment ago and run across this sentence: "Carob pods are naturally sweet, not bitter, and contain no theobromine or caffeine."

I'd never heard of the word or that compound until yesterday and it pops up twice in 30 hours.

It's a sign, I tell you!

[Jamestown1630]

I believe in the value of synchronicity; the problem is in figuring out the symbolization and the relative importance of it, when it shows up.

Maybe the Universe is trying to tell you that you’re eating too much chocolate, or drinking too much coffee - who knows? :-)

[Chode]

i know what they are trying to pull, and i always say common to what? CHRIST!!! Before Christian Era...

[Chode]

see post #44

[elcid1970]

So when did shish kebab become a Middle East favorite? Sounds almost vegetarian until then.

[Jamestown1630]

People have been putting themselves through incredible gyrations for decades, in order to *pretend* to ignore the obvious...

[meowmeow]

Bkmk

[Falconspeed]

Jesus is Lord.
https://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2019-spring-history-280a-001-sem-001

[imardmd1]

I've been told that before, by a well-trained Bible scholar. You are right, of course. Was it OK for Israelites to eat bugs for protein? For John Baptist?

Jewish dietary ordinances under the Mosaic/Davidic Covenant:

"Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; 
Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind" (Lev. 11:21-22 AV).

[TrueFact]

The CE vs: AD nomenclature can be thwarted by calling CE the Christian Era. Can’t recall where I first saw that but probably here on FR.

[Covenantor]

In the late 50s my mom would occasionally buy a bag of the dried pods for us as a treat. Cracking the thin shell and getting to the edible pulp...good stuff. A handy treat for small boys to keep in their pocket while ranging all over the place.

[piasa]

St John’s “bread” pods? https://nuts.com/cookingbaking/seeds/carob-st-johns-bread.html

[Covenantor]

St John’s “bread” pods?
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Yes....should have mentioned it in my reply

[Larry Lucido]

I suspect the qubit is divided into, say, ten parts, in three dimensions, making a qab 1/1000th of a qubic qubit.

Qubit?? Obviously, I've been getting it wrong all this time.

[richardtavor]

Before Common Era BCE

[Fester Chugabrew]

Did the legs tickle while going down the hatch?

[central_va]

I thought they ate big drum sticks and drank mead.

[richardtavor]

135 to be exact, when the Emperor Hadrian declared the Roman Province Judea (and Samaria) to be Syriana Palestina, or part of the Syrian Province of the Roman Empire. Hadrian also named Jerusalem Aelia Capitolina, which retained that name until captured by the Muslims in 638. Hadrian had suppressed the Bar Kochba Rebellion in 135 and sought to erase the memory of Jewish ownership of Israel and Jerusalem. The Historian Eusebius wrote of ‘Palestine’ in 300 and the Catholic Church, which was technically solidified in 326 by Constantine, adopted the term in its teachings. Hadrian’s method of renaming Israel is still in place to this day, as the British adopted the name when it authored the British Mandate of Palestine in 1922 at the League of Nations, and was adopted by the UN as well. All of this was to erase the existence of Jewish Israel. That was true in 135, 1922 and to this day. There has never been a nation of Palestine, but part of the Roman Province of Syriana Palestina.

[toothfairy86]

I remember Michael Savage saying that locusts are Kosher.