What Did the Ancient Israelites Eat? Diet in Biblical Times
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
What food did the ancient Israelites eat, and how much of it did they consume? That’s a seemingly simple question, but it’s actually a complex topic. In this fascinating book, Nathan MacDonald carefully sifts through all the relevant evidence—biblical, archaeological, anthropological, environmental—to uncover what the people of biblical times really ate and how healthy (or unhealthy) it was. Engagingly written for general readers, What Did the Ancient Israelites Eat? is the fruit of extensive scholarly research. Including an archaeological timeline and three detailed maps, the book concludes by analyzing a number of contemporary books that advocate a return to “biblical” eating.
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- Explores the diet and nutrition of the biblical world
- Analyzing books that advocate a return to “biblical” eating
- Includes an archaeological timeline and three detailed maps
- A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey
- Reconstructing the Israelite Diet
- The Mediterranean Triad: Bread, Wine, and Oil
- Vegetables, Pulses, and Fruit
- Meat, Milk, Birds, and Fish
- Condiments and Other Foods
- Modeling the Israelite Diet
- Environment and Climate
- Food Shortage and Famine
- The Consumption of Meat: Archaeological Evidence
- The Consumption of Meat: Anthropological Evidence
- Food Distribution
- Nutritional Deficiencies
- The Diet of the Ancient Israelites
- Biblical Diets
What Did the Ancient Israelites Eat? is a fascinating and eye-opening glimpse into the eating patterns and problems of the ancient Israelites. Judiciously using a variety of sources, MacDonald examines the culinary past, with results that challenge many scholarly and popular notions of the diet in biblical days. Complex scientific analyses are presented in a highly readable form, making this book an engaging and rewarding page-turner.
—Carol Meyers, Mary Grace Wilson Professor of Religion, Duke University
I heartily recommend it for three big reasons: a very readable book, careful in method and approach, and judicious in conclusion. There is nothing simplistic and grandiose about this book. There’s a ‘just the facts’ approach that is more than willing to admit when we can’t be sure. This could be a wonderful addition to any Old Testament course because it is interesting, well-written, and a model for how to do judicious work.
—Scot McKnight, Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies, North Park University
Of particular noteworthiness is MacDonald’s interest in balance and accuracy throughout this section. He takes nothing for granted and demonstrates great skill in avoiding both extremes of overstating and understating the evidence. That in itself is difficult enough to accomplish, but to do it while still remaining interesting is well nigh miraculous.
—Jim West, adjunct professor, Quartz Hill School of Theology
- Title: What Did the Ancient Israelites Eat?: Diet in Biblical Times
- Author: Nathan MacDonald
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 172
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Food in the Bible; Food › Religious aspects--Judaism; Jews › Dietary laws; Bible. O.T. › Criticism, interpretation, etc
- ISBNs: 9780802862983, 0802862985
- Resource ID: LLS:WHTDDRLYSRLTST
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:47:02Z