Tuesday, November 11, 2008

It's in the Bible!

We wanted to make fish for dinner and went to the butcher to get some. He recommended we get amnoon, St. Peter’s being the only English name for the fish he knew. We cooked it and it was good, but we still had no idea what it was. A quick search online later and we discovered that it was tilapia, so called St. Peter’s fish because of a story in the New Testament of Peter catching a fish in the Galilee with a shekel in its mouth (shekel being the name of both the currency used today in modern Israel and the currency in ancient Israel from which it took its name). At some point one kind of tilapia found in the Galilee became associated with the story, and the name stuck. I was just at the Galilee. I walked the paths of history. It seems almost unavoidable here.

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