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“And I have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey” (Exodus 3:8). This promise to bring the Israelites into a good land appears in the Book of Exodus; the Lord speaks it to Moses from the burning bush. While we know this refers to the land of Israel, what does “flowing with milk and honey” mean? We’ve dissected it before,a but a new exhibit at the Eretz Israel Museum curated by Irit Ziffer, It Is the […]

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Footnotes

1. William H.C. Propp, “Milk and Honey,” Bible Review 15:03.

2. Amihai Mazar and Nava Panitz-Cohen, “To What God?” BAR 34:04; Strata: “Turkish Delight: Ancient Israelites Import Honeybees,” BAR 36:06.