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The bible allows the consumption of certain types of bug: grasshoppers, crickets and locusts. When fried they apparently taste similar to prawns

With what the lichen hypothesis is better fitting to the biblical description than the tamarick juice one?

Originally posted by Don Quixote That's interesting, I didn't know that, thanks. Hos does the lichen taste? - because manna was supposed to taste like honey cake, and to get with worms if staying overnight.

Apparently it tastes bitter, but to starving refugees it would be the sweetest thing they tasted for weeks

That's interesting, I didn't know that, thanks.
Hos does the lichen taste? - because manna was supposed to taste like honey cake, and to get with worms if staying overnight.


Edited by Don Quixote - 20-Apr-2012 at 01:15

It depends if there are such lichens in Sinai. I root for the tamarisk juice because it's still there and used in pretty much the same way as I suppose it was in Biblical times - I have a lost of respect for customs that can be followed to contemporary times.

 AFAIK, manna is the juice/resin of the bush Tamarix Gallica /Tamarix mannifera/when pricked by an insect, /Coccus manniparus/, and it's still collected by women in the Sinai, in the morning, before the ants eat it, it's almost pure sugar. In Arabic it's called "mann es-samma"="heavenly manna".
"...Bedouns can collect 4 pounds per head, in the morning that they knead into puree; it keeps indefinitely and it's sweet and nutritious..." http://books.google.com/books?id=eD6IVllMx_YC&pg=PA383&lpg=PA383&dq=mann+es-sama+still+collected+now&source=bl&ots=BIKzK0Angi&sig=OKdRLzKrzArZn_oa2AbPmnajecY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TD-KT4vhLuWniQKy89zZCw&ved=0CE0Q6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=mann%20es-sama%20still%20collected%20now&f=false

The reference in the bible that it putrefied and bred worms if left overnight was reference to the the ants and insects coming and eating it. And the amount that can be collected is not 'scanty' as the article says, 4 pound a person is quite an amount.

The main objection against the wheat idea is that whatever manna was, it was supposed to be collected in the wild, not grown, sprouted, and etc - this is not a ground for miracle /unexplained event/ but a result of conscious human effort. The Bible didn't say they were carrying the manna with them, and making it themselves - they collected some naturally found food resource, not wheat they had to grow and sprout themselves. So, it doesn't fit at all, IMHO.




Edited by Don Quixote - 14-Apr-2012 at 23:50

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Edited by medenaywe - 09-Feb-2012 at 05:05

I was working on that last evening :-)

take a look in updated article

http://www.bible-exodus.narod2.ru/articles/manna/manna_english.html#manna_resin

Originally posted by vasnas give me a link to this version... I did not find this before

Here's the requested link. It is believed manna was the sugary secretions from insects like aphids or cicadas. The rising sun evaporated the liquid, leaving a frost-like covering on the ground
Studies in ancient technology

give me a link to this version... I did not find this before