Some found in Turkey date back to 6000 BCE. Mirrors of the Biblical era were highly polished volcanic stones called obsidian. They were certainly not the glass mirrors that we use today glass mirrors appear only in the 1st century CE and did not come into widespread use until the invention of the silvered-glass mirror in Germany in 1835. Still, the mirror has an important role in Jewish tradition and culture.īefore we look for them in the Bible, let’s find out what mirrors actually were like in Biblical days. You who swelter in your clothes when the land lies hushed under the south wind, can you join him in spreading out the skies, hard as a mirror of cast bronze?”īiblical references to the actual use of mirrors are scarce, however. Mirrors are among these, as in the book of Job 37:15-18, when Job’s friend Elihu challenges him: “ Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash?. MANY EVERYDAY OBJECTS make appearances in the Bible, either as utilities or as elements within figures of speech.
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