One Bible scholar states: “Salutations among the Orientals did not consist, as among us, of a slight bow, or extension of the hand, but [were] performed by many embraces, and inclinations, and even prostrations of the body on the ground.
یکی از محققان کتاب مقدّس می‌گوید :‏ « در مشرق‌زمین سلام و تحیّت ،‏ مانند فرهنگ غرب به دست دادن یا تعظیمی مختصر محدود نبود .‏