Hi Arthur, its a guess, I'm going on the map on the frontpage of the Salt Archives website, that the city Sodom was by mt Sodom from where a lot of salt came. Thus Lot's wife became the actual stuff of that place, quite common around there. A new take on ashes to ashes.. Also, would you scrape up your wife and haul her along to sell in her new form or even use as a foodstuff? Brrrrrr

 

On 22/08/06, Arthur Callaway <arthur-callaway@...> wrote:

Thanks for the discussion.

It brought this question to mind for me and I apolgize that it is off topic but maybe someone has a theory on my question.

 

Give the ancient value of salt.

Lot's wife being turned into a pillar of salt.

On the surface seemed an answer to her disobedience but if salt was of high value, was she not turned into something

1)monetarily sound 2)life sustaining 3) to be taken with her husband and daughters on their escape?

Salt just seems to me to be an odd choice, why not dung which had far less value.

Any thoughts?

 

Arthur

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Subject: RE: Bread and Salt, in ancient Hebrew

 

of course we are slaves, in more ways than one. However, i think it is false to say that we are the only animals being obsessed with food. after all give any animal the chance to alter the food source and they will. look at chimps, monkeys or even at animals in african parks that eat fruit that have decayed to alcohol and i am sure there are more animals out there. there are some basic instincts out there: life and reproduce. we need to eat and drink all live long, every day, multiple times. Of course we will "mess" with our find as much as we can, for the better or the worse.
 
By the way, we are not the only ones being dependent on salt. horses and cows get a salt stone. some monkeys are being trapped with salt. and more examples exist of animals needing salt. most organisms on this planet are built in a way that requires them a certain amount of salt to function.

gtg
hope this helps



 

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To: commonsalt@yahoogroups.com
From: southafricaninsideandout@...
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:41:54 +0200
Subject: Re: Bread and Salt, in ancient Hebrew

thanks, I've just been and checked and last night's late night reading left me squint. The quote is
 

Such was the importance of salt that the words, 'war' and 'peace' originate from the word for salt & bread in Ancient Hebrew and Arabic - The first war that mankind initiated was most probably over 'salt' supplies.

It reads differently today from how it did.

 

I stand by the rest of my words, though. We are slaves.

 

 

 

On 22/08/06, elimelec <elimelec@... > wrote:

 

how do find that the words are the same?

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From: commonsalt@yahoogroups.com [mailto: commonsalt@yahoogroups.com]On
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Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:58 AM
To: commonsalt@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Bread and Salt, in ancient Hebrew

Dear Moderator,

Please can you explain how it is that salt and bread are the same word
in ancient Hebrew. According to the Eden story, we ate a normal diet
like other animals until our fall, and our diet changed then to become
bread, seeds and grains subjected to fire. That salt provides the
spark for fire is interesting too, and that it is the source of the
word slave. Of course we are slaves, what other animal HAS to have
salt? What other animal alters almost everything it puts in its mouth
by subjecting it to fire? What

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