RE: Why does God hate Bacon?
September 4, 2013 at 7:02 pm
(This post was last modified: September 4, 2013 at 7:02 pm by Minimalist.)
There is a source for scholarly papers called Academia.edu and they have this one on point.
You have to be a member to access the files and I was able to link to a chart.
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Guess what? Pigs were big in Philistia. Not so much in Judah but relatively more common in the northern kingdom of "Israel." As one scholar noted, "Pigs breed fast, and donot need to be driven to pasture when there is enough available food, such as vegetables andanimal waste. They are usually exploited for their meat, considering the lack of secondary products that can be extracted from them. They cannot be driven far and hence domestic pigs are not suitable for nomadic life."
Again, the Judahites were pastoral nomads driving their flocks from place to place.
You have to be a member to access the files and I was able to link to a chart.
Guess what? Pigs were big in Philistia. Not so much in Judah but relatively more common in the northern kingdom of "Israel." As one scholar noted, "Pigs breed fast, and donot need to be driven to pasture when there is enough available food, such as vegetables andanimal waste. They are usually exploited for their meat, considering the lack of secondary products that can be extracted from them. They cannot be driven far and hence domestic pigs are not suitable for nomadic life."
Again, the Judahites were pastoral nomads driving their flocks from place to place.
