On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 00:03:43 -0000 Lars Henrik Mathiesen
<thorinn@...> writes:
> > The word |etrog| (citron) doesn't occur in the Bible, although it
> occurs
> > in the Aramaic translation of the "fruit of the beautiful tree"
> verse,
> > and it occurs many times in the Mishna (first post-Biblical Jewish
> legal
> > compendium, c. 200 CE) when discussing the fruit needed for the
> holiday
> > of Sukkot.
> So we can be sure that citrons were used when that was written down
> --- after the fall of the Temple. Is it known where it was
> compiled?
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Somewhere in Israel... if i remember correctly, probably the Galilee
area.
> > The earliest references to |etrog| i know of are in the Mishna...
> > although in one of those places it talks about a priest-king of
> the
> > Hasmonean dynasty (c. 100BCE i think) getting pelted with citrons
> > because the people disagreed with how he was performing a ritual.
> Was this in connection with Sukkot, or did etrogs just happen to be
> involved for some other reason?
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It happened on Sukkot - that's why people through their citrons, it was
the closest throwable object at hand i guess :-P .
> Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour
> NOT marked)
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-Stephen (Steg)
"pbþbbpppt!"