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TWO CHERUBIN MADE OF OLIVE WOOD PROTECTED THE ARK OF THE COVENANT

DOS QUERUBINES DE MADERA DE OLIVO PROTEGEN EL ARCA DE LA ALIANZA

En el Primer Libro de los Reyes, se nos describe la construcción del Templo de Jerusalén por parte del rey Salomón, alrededor del año 1000 a.C., según les directrices divinas. La madera del ciprés fue usada para el suelo, la madera de Olivo para las puertas y la de...

EL REY SALOMÓN, Y EL COMERCIO INTERNACIONAL DE ACEITE DE OLIVA

EL REY SALOMÓN, Y EL COMERCIO INTERNACIONAL DE ACEITE DE OLIVA

A la muerte del rey David, y contando con el apoyo de su madre, del profeta Natán, del general Banaías y del sumo sacerdote Sadoc, Salomón eliminó a sus adversarios políticos (su hermanastro Adonías y el general Joab) e inició un reinado caracterizado por un largo...

HACE 2 MILENIOS COLUMELA PRESCRIBÍA COMO HACER ACEITE DE OLIVA DE CALIDAD

COLUMELA TOLD US HOW TO MAKE QUALITY OLIVE OIL 2000 YEARS AGO

Lucius Junius Moderatus, known as Columela, was born in Gades (the current Cádiz), in the Roman Bética region, in the year 4 AD. A friend of Seneca, he held the position of military tribune in the Sixth Ironclad Legion (Legio VI Ferrata) in Syria. After this, he moved...

THE OLDEST OLIVE OIL MILL OF ALL TIME IS 8000 YEARS OLD

On the shores of Israel, submerged under the sea, a Neolithic civilization has been found. The biggest mystery of this settlement is that it had a well of potable water to supply the population and an olive oil mill. Being that it is 7,500-8,000 years old, it is the...

THE GROTTO OF GETHSEMANE WAS ORIGINALLY AN OLIVE OIL MILL

THE GROTTO OF GETHSEMANE WAS ORIGINALLY AN OLIVE OIL MILL

The cave referenced to in the Bible, where Jesus spent his last moments as a free man and where he was delivered by Judas (known as the Grotto of Gethsemane), was originally an oil mill. Not only that, Gethsemane means "Oil Press", (Gath-press / Shemen-oil), referring...