Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 24/11/2004 17:05, Karl Randolph wrote:

> ...
>
> What are the linguistic clues in Torah concerning the cooking utensiles?
>
> When they left Egypt they had kneading troughs, most likely made of wood. 
> During the wanderings, there is mentioned grinding and boiling of food, which 
> presuppose some sort of utensiles. Roasting of birds could be done with a 
> handy stick. Are there any other linguistic clues?
>  

There is a mention in Numbers 11:8 of a hand mill (rexayim), a mortar 
(medokha) and a pot (parur). But I guess all of these words are 
sufficiently obscure to be of little help to this investigation. The 
hand mill may have been simply a pair of stones of a suitable shape, and 
so archaeologically indistinguishable from any other stones especially 
after millennia of wear from desert sandstorms.


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