Fanciful Illustration of Biblical Women Grinding Grain Depicted as Contemporary European Women. Reproduced Widely in Biblical Dictionaries in the Late 18th and 19th Centuries. Illustration: Wikimedia Commons.
The image of two women grinding grain with a rotary hand mill became a common biblical trope in the 19th and early 20th centuries, even though it was based on an 18th-century Scottish woodcut rather than ancient Near Eastern evidence. Bible dictionaries and later travel literature used this…Read More
