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... cud - chewers . Among animals raised by the ancient Israelites , there were three cud - chewers : cattle , sheep , and goats . These three animals were the most important food - producing species in the ancient Middle East not because ...
... cud - chewers . Among animals raised by the ancient Israelites , there were three cud - chewers : cattle , sheep , and goats . These three animals were the most important food - producing species in the ancient Middle East not because ...
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... cud - chewers : the camel , the hare , and a third creature whose name in Hebrew is shāphān . The reason given for why these three alleged cud - chewers are not good to eat is that they do not " part the hoof " : Nevertheless , these ...
... cud - chewers : the camel , the hare , and a third creature whose name in Hebrew is shāphān . The reason given for why these three alleged cud - chewers are not good to eat is that they do not " part the hoof " : Nevertheless , these ...
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... chew the cud . This leaves the camel as the only bona fide cud - chewer that the Israelites couldn't eat . Every vertebrate land animal that is not a ruminant was forbidden flesh . And only one vertebrate land animal that is a ruminant ...
... chew the cud . This leaves the camel as the only bona fide cud - chewer that the Israelites couldn't eat . Every vertebrate land animal that is not a ruminant was forbidden flesh . And only one vertebrate land animal that is a ruminant ...
Contents
ONE Good to Think or Good to Eat? | 13 |
TWO Meat Hunger | 19 |
THREE The Riddle of the Sacred Cow | 47 |
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