I am not a potter, and I do not play one on television! However, as a student of the scriptures and the life and times of the people in the biblical narrative, I can say with some certainty that crafting pottery is one of the world's oldest professions. Alongside bone and bricks, fragments of earthenware or pottery have long been gathered and studied by archeologists to understand something of the ancient inhabitants of the Middle East and nearly every other ancient culture throughout the world.
Few of us can remember when there was no such thing as plastic for bottles or melamine for dishware; most of us can't remember a time without cardboard boxes! But for thousands of years, various forms of pottery, hollowed-out gourds, and animal hides were all that people had with which to tra…