{"id":422,"date":"2020-10-01T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/jewish-agriculture\/?page_id=422"},"modified":"2021-10-25T19:56:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T19:56:02","slug":"biblical-farmers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/jewish-agriculture\/pillars-of-ancient-and-modern-farming\/biblical-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Biblical Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><b>A (Very) Short Course on Biblical and Premodern Agricultural History<\/b><\/h3>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 Jews have a long history of farming. Starting with Abraham\u2019s biblical journey from Mesopotamia to the Land of Canaan, the first Israelites lived off of shepherding. Countless generations later, following their return from bondage in Egypt in the 14<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> century BCE, Jews learned to cultivate crops, orchards and vineyards from the indigenous Canaanites.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-955 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/jewish-agriculture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/638\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-09-at-8.41.36-PM-300x204.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/jewish-agriculture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/638\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-09-at-8.41.36-PM-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/jewish-agriculture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/638\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-09-at-8.41.36-PM-1024x697.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/jewish-agriculture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/638\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-09-at-8.41.36-PM-768x523.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/jewish-agriculture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/638\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-09-at-8.41.36-PM.png 1258w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A (Very) Short Course on Biblical and Premodern Agricultural History \u00a0 \u00a0 Jews have a long history of farming. 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