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Gen 9:4 – Why can’t we eat the life?

Gen 9:4 – Why can’t we eat the life?

What is the reasoning behind the prohibition from eating the lifeblood of an animal?
It isn’t until Moses that purposing of the blood for atonement is provided as some additional reasoning behind the prohibition:

For the life of the flesh…

Should I Eat With You?

Should I Eat With You?

Today marks the final installment of the conversation between Pinchas Shir and I about food and the Bible. We move into a full Greco-Roman context with questions regarding how Roman families ate and feasted. And within that context, why would …

What did John the Baptist eat?

What did John the Baptist eat?

Matthew 3:4 and Mark 1:6 describe the food of John the Baptist as locusts and wild honey. The word locust takes different definitions as follows:

a. large and mainly tropical grasshopper with strong powers of flight. It is usually solit…