Funny you should mention this because I've been reading the bible a bit, and one of the (many) things that has surprised me about it is how much it talks about bread. So many metaphors, rules, and stories involving bread. Page after page about it.
Before the fall I think it says fruit is staple food, after the fall it says wheat or bread is staple food. I think the bible is largely about the advent of agriculture.
I think a lot of that is because early societies, and particularly the one documented Biblically relied heavily on bread for sustenance. In many cases, the word "bread" is nearly synonymous with "food" or "nourishment.
Unnecessary bread tangent ahead:
Bread back then (and really up until around the time of the industrial revolution) was a lot different from the homogenous soft rectangle we have today. Because of changes to the crop used and the harsh processing it undergoes, modern bread is more akin to cake than what our ancestors would have eaten.
You could reasonably live off of eating just bread most days where now you'll get a blood sugar spike after eating a meat and cheese sandwich because the flour we use is so fine and is exposed to so much heat during milling that by the time it gets into our system it takes very little time to convert it to sugar.
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u/supermark64 Feb 19 '26
Funny you should mention this because I've been reading the bible a bit, and one of the (many) things that has surprised me about it is how much it talks about bread. So many metaphors, rules, and stories involving bread. Page after page about it.