eat

Should I Eat With You?

Should I Eat With You?

Today marks the final installment of the conversation between Pinchas Shir and I about food and the Bible. We move into a full Greco-Roman context with questions regarding how Roman families ate and feasted. And within that context, why would …

What did John the Baptist eat?

What did John the Baptist eat?

Matthew 3:4 and Mark 1:6 describe the food of John the Baptist as locusts and wild honey. The word locust takes different definitions as follows:

a. large and mainly tropical grasshopper with strong powers of flight. It is usually solit…