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Luscious dried dates.

Learning about the foods of the
Bible at meaningful Holy Land
sites is a delightful way to tour
Israel.

B ible-loving travelers to Israel You can learn how to make real
lentil stew, a staple of the biblical
want nothing more than to walk a mile diet, during your Israel trip, and
in the sandals of the ancients. And enjoy an authentic bowlful at
what better way to do this than to look Nazareth Village or Neot
at a basic element of life we share with Kedumim Biblical Landscape
the people of the past – eating! Reserve. Photo: Courtesy of
Neot Kedumim, the Biblical
Today’s nutritionists would certainly Landscape Reserve
approve of the important part that
grains, fruits and vegetables played
in the lives of our biblical forebears,
as shown by God’s promise of plenty
contained in the list known as the
Seven Species (Deut. 8:8-9).

Grain, which tops that list, can be
eaten in many forms, even fresh off
the stalk for a short period of time in
early spring. This must have been
the time when Jesus and the disciples
were going through the field of “corn”
(i.e., grain) on the Sabbath day (Matt.
12:1, Mark 2:23, Luke 6:1). We

52 “…a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; a land where bread will not be scarce…”