{"id":50667,"date":"2019-03-03T19:13:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T17:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=50667"},"modified":"2022-09-25T15:42:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T12:42:05","slug":"text-and-context-in-matters-of-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/text-and-context-in-matters-of-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Text and Context In Matters of Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[744,742],"acf":{"old_id":"50667","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":49421,"related_cahpter":"167","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Taking clean and unclean from Temple cult to table","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019ve made it to this chapter, you may be experiencing d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. That\u2019s because you read almost exactly the same thing in Leviticus 11! Just like Leviticus 11, Deuteronomy 14 contains a list of animals that may not be eaten. Even the wording is almost identical.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But there is a key difference between the two chapters: Leviticus 11 comes within a larger unit of chapters on ritual purity, and its discussion of prohibited animals fits into that context. The term used to describe prohibited animals, \u201cunclean,\u201d is also used to describe things that cause ritual impurity, such as dead bodies, semen, menstrual blood, and leprosy. And in fact, Leviticus 11 follows up its main discussion of dietary prohibitions with a discussion of the ritual impurity caused by touching certain animals or carrying their carcasses. Its precise use of language also relates to this topic: the term \u201cunclean\u201d refers only to animals that cause ritual impurity from touching (such as pigs), whereas those that may not be eaten but <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">don\u2019t <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cause ritual impurity (such as shellfish) are called \u201cabomination.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deuteronomy 14 also uses \u201cunclean\u201d to describe animals that may not be eaten, and there is one reference to touching carcasses in verse 8. But the other connections to ritual impurity are absent. There is no discussion of ritual impurity caused by touching or carrying the carcasses of animals. And there is no terminological distinction between animals that cause ritual impurity and those that don\u2019t\u2014they are all \u201cunclean.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When texts this similar appear in the Bible, scholars naturally assume some sort of historical connection. Either the author(s) of Deuteronomy 14 copied and modified the text from Leviticus or the reverse\u2014or perhaps the authors of the two chapters drew on a third text that we no longer have. In terms of its language, our passage seems to fit the Leviticus context better. But there are also reasons to think that the parts of Leviticus 11 on ritual purity were added at a later stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What we can say is that in presenting the dietary laws in a context unrelated to ritual purity, Deuteronomy is bringing them closer to what they are today: a set of rules about what Jews may or may not eat, unrelated to temple-based laws of purity and purification. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>image:\u00a0shutterstock_689475808<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":44985,"id":44985,"title":"shutterstock_689475808","filename":"shutterstock_689475808.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/shutterstock_689475808.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-unspoken-truths-about-the-dietary-laws\/shutterstock_689475808\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"shutterstock_689475808","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":44954,"date":"2018-12-01 21:16:18","modified":"2019-03-03 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