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Exactly, and they mention pretty much every other major food item from the area too. Also, being direct influences on one another, it would be enough for the o
by falcor84 7y ago
Exactly, and they mention pretty much every other major food item from the area too.
Also, being direct influences on one another, it would be enough for the old testament to make a big deal out of olives, to make the conditional probability of the others doing so very high.
- riffraff 7y agoIt does, doesn't it? I'm fairly sure there's an olive branch mentioned at the end of the deluge story.
- falcor84 7y agoThat's right, the dove brought an olive leaf. And another significant mention is as part of the anointing oil - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_anointing_oil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_anointing_oil