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Before concluding that "have salt with each other" is a simple error, 
check Encyclopedia Judaica, s.v. "Salt." It includes a number of HB/OT
references to "a covenant of salt" and ends by referring to Arabic usages. 

If peace is understood in terms of covenants, treaties, agreements, then 
to "have salt with each other" would be the equivalent of being at peace
with each other, especially for an Arabic translation, and would have the
advantage of filling out the chain of associations in Mark 9.49-50.

Sigrid Peterson   UPenn  petersig@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Finkelstein Fellow
University of Judaism

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