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While sources agree about the identity of four of the five ingredients of anointing oil, the identity of the fifth, kaneh bosem, has been a matter of debate.The Bible indicates that it was an aromatic cane or grass, which was imported from a distant land by way of the spice routes, and that a related plant grows in Israel (kaneh bosem is referenced as a cultivated plant in the Song of Songs 4:14.
[7] [8] It is one of the offerings God demands of the Israelites for the Tabernacle in Exodus 25:3–8 in the context of spices to be used to make anointing oil and incense, as well as for use in lamps. [7] It is also used in the context of offerings in Micah 6:7: "Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, With ten thousands of rivers of ...
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Rav Yehudah composed a special blessing for balsam: "Who creates the oil of our land". [9] Young women used it as a perfume to seduce young men. [10] After King Josiah hid away the holy anointing oil, balsam oil was used in its stead. [11] In the messianic era, the righteous will "bathe in 13 rivers of balsam". [12] [3]
When the Greeks entered the Temple they had defiled almost all the jugs of oil. [1] As the Maccabees searched for pure oil to light the menorah with, they found just one cruse of pure oil which still had the seal of the High Priest, the symbol of pure oil. This cruse contained just enough pure oil to keep the menorah lit for one day.
In the times of the Holy Jewish Temple, olive trees, olive oil, and olives played significant roles in various aspects of religious rituals and practices. [96] Olive oil was crucial for lighting the Menorah inside the Temple. The Menorah was a central fixture in the Temple's sanctuary. Pure olive oil was used to keep the Menorah burning ...
In April 1988, archeologists working with the former Baptist minister Vendyl Jones discovered a small jug of oil in the Qumran region that Jones announced was the oil used in the Temple. The find was announced by the New York Times on February 15, 1989, [ 5 ] and a feature article was published in National Geographic Magazine in October of that ...
The first list of the Old Testament manuscripts in Hebrew, made by Benjamin Kennicott (1718–1783) and published by Oxford in two volumes in 1776 and 1780, listed 615 manuscripts from libraries in England and on the continent. [3] Giovanni Bernardo de Rossi (1742–1831) published a list of 731 manuscripts. [4]