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What Archaeology Tells Us About the Ancient History of Eating
Kosher
DIR By: guest78
Date: December 22, 2022, 7:24 pm
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What Archaeology Tells Us About the Ancient History of Eating
Kosher
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> A new study of fish remains deepens scholars’ understanding of
how the dietary laws came to be.
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> [...]Adler, who works at Israel’s Ariel University, was
instantly intrigued. According to the Jewish laws of kashrut—the
set of rules written in the Torah, the Hebrew Bible, that
outline foods suitable for human consumption—these species are
deemed non-kosher, and therefore unfit to eat. So why were the
ancient Judeans eating them? Did they not yet know these rules?
To Adler’s knowledge, no one in archaeology had tried to analyze
why remains of the non-kosher fish existed at the ancient Judean
settlements. So when Lernau finished his speech, Adler
approached Lernau and expressed his interest in the tantalizing
relics. The pair agreed to take a deeper dive into where and
when the non-kosher fish were being eaten. “I knew it was going
to be an interesting subject,” Lernau says.
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> Now, in a study published today in the journal Tel Aviv, the
pair reveals that ancient Judeans, in a period that spans
throughout much of the first millennium B.C., enjoyed a diet
that didn’t fully adhere to Jewish kosher laws. According to the
study, archaeologists have found the remains of three non-kosher
species in the two ancients Judean settlements—the Kingdom of
Israel in the region’s north and the Kingdom of Judah in the
south. Judah residents in particular ate a lot of catfish. These
findings help scientists and historians build a more complete
picture of how the ancient Judean cultures developed and adopted
these rules...
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> [...]When both kingdoms rose to prominence, an average Judean
denizen lived under the rule of a king, and was a farmer who
plowed fields and harvested crops. With the exception of the
societal elite, most individuals were illiterate. So while the
educated intellectuals of the time had penned down laws,
scribbling them on animal skins or papyrus, the vast majority of
Judeans didn't necessarily know about them and couldn’t read
them either. Even if the societal intellectuals may have started
adopting kashrut, the masses likely hadn’t yet gotten the
memo...
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> [...]The two collaborators found that during the Persian
Period, which lasted from 539 to 332 B.C., centuries after it is
believed Moses received his commandments, ancient Judeans ate a
lot of catfish as well as skate and shark, two other non-kosher
species. (The reasons for their taboo nature are incredibly
complex but have to do with their lack of the proper type of
scales.) Fast-forward to the Roman times that span from 63 B.C.
to 324 A.D., and the scaleless fish remains nearly disappear
from the ancient trash. Unfortunately, very little fish data
falls in between the two timeframes examined, in the Hellenistic
Period. That doesn’t necessarily mean individuals weren’t eating
fish; it may just mean that archaeologists haven’t unearthed
enough fish bones from the Hellenistic household rubbish.
Typically small, the fish scraps are harder to find in dusty
digs, so archaeologists must sift through the dirt to spot them.
That’s a laborious and time-consuming process, so scientists
will only do that if they expect to find something of value—and
fish fragments aren’t a prized item for many researchers.
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> Lidar Sapir-Hen, archaeozoologist at Tel Aviv University, who
also studied the history of Judeans’ dietary restrictions but
was not involved in this study, found similar evidence that
Judeans weren’t following the laws of kashrut around similar
dates that Adler examined. She had examined pig bones found in
ancient Judean settlements. Pork is another type of non-kosher
food and yet some digs yielded a number of pig remains. The
ancient Kingdom of Judah, located in the region’s south part had
very few pig bones, but the Kingdom of Israel up north had quite
a few...
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I'm reminded of this meme when reading the above paragraph and
the one that comes after: ;D
HTML https://rabbi360.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/good-guy-rabbi-pork-abortion.jpg
Continuing with the article:
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> “It looks like in the Kingdom of Israel, a lot of people ate
pork during the 8th century B.C.,” Sapir-Hen says. “So we think
that these dietary prohibitions happened later.” Thus, the new
study adds to the already mounting evidence that ancient Judeans
weren’t strictly kosher. “I was happy to see that Yonatan and
Omri came to a very similar conclusion as we did,” Sapir-Hen
says.
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Entire article:
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Re: The 10 Commandments: How to Read Them From a Tribalist
Perspective
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 13, 2024, 7:54 pm
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For the record, drag-phobia is also of Mosaic origin:
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Re: The 10 Commandments: How to Read Them From a Tribalist
Perspective
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: January 27, 2026, 4:44 am
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