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Cook, Arthur B.
Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 3,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (earthquake, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorits): Text and notes — Cambridge, 1940

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Rain of stones

495

attributed to divine agency1, are more often recorded as a purely
anonymous portent.

iii. Rain of food.

Another form of abnormal shower is the alleged fall of actual
°°d from the skies. Thus in the book of Exodus'1- it is stated that
^e children of Israel on entering the wilderness of Sin, between

lrn and Sinai, were distressed with hunger:
'Th

yo ^ Sa'^ t'le L°RD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for
a ••••At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread ;
^ ->e sna-l know that I am the LORD your God. And it came to pass at even,
ro l'16 ^ua''s came up, and covered the camp : and in the morning the dew lay
tjj about the camp. And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon

ace of the wilderness a small round thing, small as the hoar frost on the
lik ■••■And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna : and it was

coriander seed, white ; and the taste of it was like wafers made with

Thi

timely provision of tamarisk-droppings6 and migrating quails7

Profound impression upon the people and is the subject of

• ec- allusions by other writers throughout the canon8. Indeed,
u came r u

co be regarded as frankly miraculous:

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^°'h, fj eiTaX@£v-ra virb "ZvWa to. p.eya\a atpitTLV htyxeiv irad-qp.a.Ta, Prokop. de bell.
""•"as eit \ Ka^ V0Te ^v 0a-ri'' & Bvfttnty e-Tnireo-ovaav (sc. the ashes from Vesuvius)
^T«il 4Pla 's,at ro~'s T<>-iJTy avdpwwovs wore iravSripLei i% iKelvov 53) koX h rbSe tov xP^vov
(ex. jjgc ^j'°'s Qi\dtTKea8<u tov Oebv tyvuaav, k.t.X., Georg. Monachos chron. 4. 209. 2
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^ilf^')^ "to* 111 ^' Hastin8s A Dictionary of the Bible Edinburgh 1900 iii. 236
;ic" Londoj IcLe:»'- and S. A. Cook in T. K. Cheyne—T. S. Black Encyclopedia
^.E^E-PostinT«L ^-2931 ('Manna').

■£-• " hiPley c a ' stlngs A Dictionary oj the Bible Edinburgh 1902 iv. 179 (' Quail'),
T^dia 'p',,: Cook- T- K- Cheyne, and C. Creighton in T. K. Cheyne—J. S. Black

«a London 1903 iv. 3989—3991 ('Quail').
3--"-, a 31 ff'' Deut" 8' 3' l6> Josh" 5- l2' Neh- 9- 2°' Ps" ,0:" 4°' Iof)" '5'

49' 58, Heb

9- 4- Rev. 2. 17.
 
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