A dictionary of the . f Arabia, Mesopotamia,and Babylonia. EASTER (originally the festivalof the Anglo-Sixon goddess Eostre), amistranslation for Passover, the Jew-ish feast. Acts 12 : 4. See Fkast. EAST SEA. Eze. 47:18; Joel 2 :20. See Salt Sra. EAST WIIVD. See Wind. EAT, EATING. The Hebrewswere scrupulous about eating and drink-ing with those of another religion oranother nati nalitv. - They would noteat with the Egyptians, any more thanthe Egyptians would with them, : 32, nor with the Samaritans. John4 : 9, nor with publicans and sinners,Matt. 9 :11, and the refusal to eat wi
A dictionary of the . f Arabia, Mesopotamia,and Babylonia. EASTER (originally the festivalof the Anglo-Sixon goddess Eostre), amistranslation for Passover, the Jew-ish feast. Acts 12 : 4. See Fkast. EAST SEA. Eze. 47:18; Joel 2 :20. See Salt Sra. EAST WIIVD. See Wind. EAT, EATING. The Hebrewswere scrupulous about eating and drink-ing with those of another religion oranother nati nalitv. - They would noteat with the Egyptians, any more thanthe Egyptians would with them, : 32, nor with the Samaritans. John4 : 9, nor with publicans and sinners,Matt. 9 :11, and the refusal to eat with oneimplied an entire separation. 1 :Tl. Anciently, the Jews sat at table; butwhen they encountered the practice of247 EBA EBA reclining upon couches during meals,resting the body on the left elbow andusing chiefly the right hand, they ap-pear to have adopted it. This peculiarposition makes the scene described inLuke 7: 36-50 perfectly natural, andalso shows how one of the guests couldrepose his head on anothers Roman Triclinium, illustrating Jewish Method of Eating. John 13 : 23. Women were never pres-ent at Jewish meals as guests. The Jews, in 0. T. times, appear tohave taken their principal meal atnight, after the heat of the day wasover. This, to be sure, is largely con-jecture, since we have no detailed in-formation given us in the Bible. SeeRuth 3:7; Ex. 16 : 12 : 18 : 12, 13. Theinstitution of the paschal feast in theevening likewise helps to confirm theopinion. Ex. 12 : 6, 18. They madetlfeir other meal in the morning. InN. T. times they did not ordinarilybreakfast until 9 oclock, Acts 2:15,and on the Sabbath, as Josephns says,not before noon, because not till thenwas the service of the synagogue com-pleted. In the evening the more sub-stantial meal took place. In general,the Jews led the simple, abstemiouslife of the modern Oriental, eating thefruits of the earth in the morning, andmeat only once a day, if at all. Butbesides this occasional reference to
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