tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615941543485589009.post5486324032591544824..comments2024-02-19T12:05:47.873+00:00Comments on Something Surprising: Ezekiel's surprising bread recipePlasma Engineerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02891736950166421184noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615941543485589009.post-63351236797290760542016-03-14T18:59:58.851+00:002016-03-14T18:59:58.851+00:00Chapter 4 of Ezekiel is speaking about a time of s...Chapter 4 of Ezekiel is speaking about a time of siege on the city of Jerusalem. Not only would they be unable to resupply fuel for cooking they would also be unable to dispose of waste outside the city as they would normally. Cooking over the human dung took care of both issues. It must also be noted that they would place their food on stones over a heat source such as burning dung. <br />The Bible, as any historical document, must be read in context, with historical and cultural understanding. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01986068297929873166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615941543485589009.post-23412849438407045842013-03-20T22:05:26.308+00:002013-03-20T22:05:26.308+00:00I can't disagree with any of that. :)I can't disagree with any of that. :)Plasma Engineerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02891736950166421184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615941543485589009.post-36861544412508408942013-03-20T07:17:14.581+00:002013-03-20T07:17:14.581+00:00Maybe I was wrong? Looking at the recipe I begin t...Maybe I was wrong? Looking at the recipe I begin to wonder if it is so bad a bread that it takes too 'passes' through the digestive system to get it's full food value. Something like a rabbit eating it's dung.<br /><br />Like you - I'm not going to experiment. Not to worry though there are plenty of other bloopers in the bible to comment about. Leviticus is loaded with them. Rabbits don't chew cud, bats are not birds and there are no four legged insects. Perhaps he just failed his biology course at school? There's also the slight matter of where Jesus came from because Nazareth didn't exist as a settlement in his time.John Chapmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06575901336277340191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615941543485589009.post-48443819073272963462013-03-19T22:23:43.148+00:002013-03-19T22:23:43.148+00:00An interesting point John. Thanks for commenting....An interesting point John. Thanks for commenting.<br /><br />I wonder whether human dung burns well. I'm not planning to do an experiment. <br /><br />However, on today's post I have another go at Ezekiel on a different topic. Plasma Engineerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02891736950166421184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6615941543485589009.post-57692422768463206182013-03-18T04:55:33.393+00:002013-03-18T04:55:33.393+00:00I wonder if on this occasion you might be being un...I wonder if on this occasion you might be being unfair to Ezekiel? Presumably in a famine situation you would have killed and eaten those animals which normally supplied the dung used to fuel cooking fires in arid climates.<br /><br />Could it be that the dung referred to was dried and used as a fuel rather than an ingredient?John Chapmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06575901336277340191noreply@blogger.com