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  • From: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] b-hebrew Digest, Vol 45, Issue 32 stir up the fire, salt
  • Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 18:43:35 -0500

Dear Eva,

NAU Hosea 7:4 They are all adulterers, Like an oven heated by the baker
Who ceases to stir up the fire From the kneading of the dough until it
is leavened.
I Make bread almost every week, and have for over 35 years made all
kinds of bread for our family. When I make sour dough bread, in the
morning I rise and take a part of the dough called starter and put it
in the warm oven about 110 degrees. If this was a wood stove or and
earth stove made in the ground which Hosea would be talking about ( the
fire has died down over night. coals are the only thing left) its about
105 degrees, and with the starter I put the ground grain, starter,
salt, and sweeter together , I prefer crushed grapes for sweetener, and
knead it, put it in the warm oven, It causes the bread to rise more
quickly. (Do not stir up the fire) That means as long as the bread is
in the oven rising, the hot coals will cause the bread to rise but not
to bake. Take out and knead the bread put back in oven and let rise,
About 15 minutes before the bread is completely risen, the second time,
the baker takes out the bread and “stirs up the fire” and adds more
wood. It get hot enough to cook. Puts the bread in the oven. The bread
is still not hot enough to cook it will rise until the internal
temperature of the bread gets above 120 degrees. If the baker does not
stir the fire the bread in the oven continues to rise and then falls
and finally the bread you have is slow cooked sour acid tasting bread,
and salty. Not the same quality as the bread that was taken care of by
a baker, who was careful to watch his or her bread.
So what is Hosea saying?


HH: All right, thanks, I did not know that the dough could rise in the oven. I am not familiar with that way of doing things. As far as the meaning, I think Karl had it right. The imagery shows the dangerous heat of the adulterous lust of those in the northern kingdom.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard




  • Re: [b-hebrew] b-hebrew Digest, Vol 45, Issue 32 stir up the fire, salt, Harold Holmyard, 09/23/2006

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