لا يوجد سكر في الكتاب المقدس — ولكن هناك تحذير بشأن العسل

There is no sugar in the Bible. Sugar cane had not reached the ancient Near East in any form the writers would have recognised, and no Hebrew or Greek word in Scripture means it. What the Bible has instead is honey, and it has a great deal of it — including one warning that most people have never read. Why sugar is absent Sugar cane was cultivated in India and reached the Mediterranean world only centuries after the New Testament…