believed to have fallen from heaven to provide food for the Israelites in the Sinai desert during the Exodus from Egypt. Some authors considered the manna to be a desert lichen, Lecanora esculenta ...

He has done so through the various signs of bread and wine in the Old Testament, Abram’s interaction with Melchizedek, the Passover, and the manna and quail the Israelites ate in the desert.

Sinai Desert. This species is also supposed to have been the manna of the wandering Israelites. Hedrick contains the following: “The same species was found by Paviot[sic] who procured it in his ...