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Adam prays in the Garden of Eden. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.

Judaic rituals in the Old Testament. Engraving.

Jacob offers bread and soup to an exhausted Esau, who has returned from hunting; to the left, angels move upon Jacob's ladder; to the right, the blind Isaac feels Jacob's disguised hands. Engraving by E. Kirkall after Skeitz.

Abraham gives food to his three strange guests. Stipple engraving by G.S Facius and J.G. Facius, 1781, after B.E. Murillo.

Zur Bibel. Naturhistorische, anthropologische und medicinische Fragmente / Von J.B. Friedreich.

From feasting to fasting, the evolution of a sin : attitudes to food in late antiquity / Veronika E. Grimm.

Food in ancient Judah : domestic cooking in the time of the Hebrew Bible / Cynthia Shafer-Elliott.

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Zur Bibel. Naturhistorische, anthropologische und medicinische Fragmente / Von J.B. Friedreich.

Adam prays in the Garden of Eden. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.

From feasting to fasting, the evolution of a sin : attitudes to food in late antiquity / Veronika E. Grimm.

Food in ancient Judah : domestic cooking in the time of the Hebrew Bible / Cynthia Shafer-Elliott.

Judaic rituals in the Old Testament. Engraving.