Manna Appearing Again In Sinai

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[webber]

I received an email with the above URL, but couldn't find anything else on the Web to confirm it as real or a hoax. Has anyone else heard or read anything about the above article?

[MissAmericanPie]

No, but it is certainly interesting. Maybe scholars should look there for traces of the wanderings of Moses that they say they can't find evidence of.

[Dianna]

Furthermore, and to the Almighty's dismay, even a local vegan group refuses to eat the manna, based on their uncertainty as to whether or not the divine gift contains eggs.

I suppose we could assume that the reporter has communicated with the Almighty God...

[10mm]

Read it again. Your question will be answered.

[WhereTheBuffaloRoam]

If this story is true, then I will eat my Manna-Hat!! Actually, if you do a little digging in the site, they will tell you the stories are mostly made up - of course. They are a satirical site but I did not take the time to figure out if they are being mean about it or just trying to be funny.

[giotto]

Perhaps you didn't see the Disclaimer link at the bottom.

[Dog Gone]

It's hard to believe that anyone would believe this attempt at humor as being authentic.

[Ditter]

Do you really believe every e-mail you recieve? (snicker)

[Cicero]

Evidently it's meant to be humor, although I confess I don't see the point of the joke. The names of some real biblical scholars are taken in vain.

[ckca]

Real or hoax"

From the same site:

Doesn't take a rocket scientist.

Admin:

Chat?

[F.J. Mitchell]

The article reveals itself to fiction.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Oh! Ye of little faith.

[John Beresford Tipton]

Tortilla Flats?

[Leo Carpathian]

Doesn't matter, tax it!

[RightOnline]

Ummm...............it's so obviously a put on, it's not even funny.

[alnick]

Some members, who presume the bread does contain eggs, are leading demonstrations and petitioning other townsfolk to "not eat from God?s plate of animal cruelty."

There are no words...

[alnick]

They are a satirical site

Okay. That bit about eating from the plate of God's cruelty and reverse engineering it so they could patent manna burgers had me thinking that it had to be satire, but I quickly scanned the site and it didn't appear to be a spoof. I should have given it a closer look.

[WackyKat]

You can't possibly think this is for real,can you?
Then again, I've seen articles in religious goofball magazines and websites that are hardly better.

[dc-zoo]

Do you really believe every e-mail you recieve? (snicker)

..now that's the real manna from heaven "snicker bars"

[wideminded]

If this story is true, then I will eat my Manna-Hat!!

Apparently, there really is such a thing as manna, an edible substance that appears in the desert. It is produced by insects. Here is one description, although I am sure that there are better ones:

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'Manna' still occurs in the desert. Insects which live on the feathery tamarisk trees in the Sinai area suck the sap of the tree. Then they exude drops of a sweet, resinous secretion, varying in size from a pinhead to a pea. These stick on the ground and evaporate into white, frost-like particles before turning yellowish brown. They taste like solidified honey. Modern Bedouin gather the manna early in the day, before ants - possibly the 'maggots' of the Bible - become active and eat it. They seal it up in pots, away from the ants, kneading it later into a paste which is a nourishing addition to their everyday diet. "Depending on favorable conditions it is possible for one man to gather four pounds of manna in a morning. As early as the 15th century AD monks and Arabs in Sinai gathered manna soon after daybreak in order to sell it...Manna is not only a local product. The 'ambrosia' of the Greek gods was probably also the resinous secretion associated with the tamarisk - which grows widely in Mediterranean countries."      - Marshall Cavendish, Genesis and Exodus