On Fri, 14 May 2004 13:01:36 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

What's fascinating about the way the Book of Leviticus is written is
that rather than just listing what you can and cannot eat, it tries to
use a form of logic for what's mentioned, and some underlying reason for
why it's unclean. The idea seems to be devise a set of rules that allow
you to determine the cleanliness of a creature that you have never
encountered before, based on its habits and attributes. So say a Great
Fish vomits you out Jonah-style on the shore of Peru, and you are
hungry...and there's a lama standing there..you can have a gander at
it's feet and feeding habits to determine if you should eat it.
Now if you were somehow transported to Tibet, and there was a Llama
standing there, and his feet were not cloven, nor did he chew the
cud....but he had legs above his feet for jumping, like a locust...

....So, when the Israeli Space Program finally makes a landing on the
8th planet of Beta Centauri, I assume Leviticus will be incorporated
into the Flight Operations Manual for EVA procedures? :-)

OM

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