Category: Jewish food laws

• Ezekiel Bread, Daniel’s Diet, and Other “Biblical” Food Follies

  When I first heard about Ezekiel Bread, I was in the middle of translating the book of Ezekiel for a year-long Ph.D. class. So when my roommate asked if I’d heard of Ezekiel Bread, I had…and I hadn’t. I certainly knew about the bread in the book of Ezekiel (chapter 4), but I had no…

  wendywidder

  November 17, 2011

  Daniel 1, How to read the Bible, Jewish food laws, The Book of Daniel, Vegetarian

• What’s His Beef?

  We have barely met Daniel (v.6) before we learn that his name is changed to the more Babylonian appropriate “Belteshazzar,” which probably meant something like “Bel (oh, great Babylonian god!), protect his life!” (v.7). Having informed us of this fact, the narrator immediately reverts back to the name “Daniel” (v.8). This narrator will have nothing…

  wendywidder

  November 5, 2011

  Babylon, culture, Daniel 1, Jewish food laws, The Book of Daniel, Vegetarian