![]() ![]() The story has no root in any apparent oral or written tradition (at least as far as I could find) and possesses all the earmarks of being nothing more than an urban legend. This so-called Jewish mealtime tradition is one that I have heard but have never investigated until now. Nonetheless, this writer could not find anything pertaining to a tradition surrounding a folded napkin. Granted, there are numerous Jewish traditions in both the written and oral law and it is possible that one could have been overlooked. The death knell to the mealtime legend (no pun intended) is that there seems to be no evidence that such a Jewish mealtime tradition exists. There is no evidence of the Jewish mealtime tradition. ![]() The neat folding of the headcloth as implied by the mealtime tradition does not seem to fit the tomb scene even if the tradition did exist as it seems more likely that the head cloth was rolled up like a scroll. According to Louw and Nida, entulissō indicates the action “to cause something to be in the shape of a roll.” The term is also used in Revelation 6:14 where the sky is entulissō (i.e., rolled up) like a scroll. While the CSB uses the term “folded,” the term entulissō seems to fit better with the notion of being rolled.
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