Salt for the earthen oven revisited

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Salt for the earthen oven revisited

Pilch, John J.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2263/17186
Date: 2011-06-07

Abstract:

The symbolic interpretation of the salt sayings in the New Testament (Mt 5:13; Mk 9:42–50; Lk 12:49–53; 14:34–35) is best based on the long-standing cultural practice of using salt as a catalytic agent to burn dung, the common fuel for the typical earthen oven used by peasants even to this day. Seasoning and preservation are culturally inappropriate.

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