(September 14, 2010 at 6:26 am)chatpilot Wrote: Here is food for thought about Noahs ark how did he know which animals were clean or unclean since this was not established until the Mosaic law?
Errr-Oh FUCK! Why didn't I think of that?
Short apologist answer,dietary law was established by custom by Noah's time.
BUT a Google search revealed that the Jews claim dietary law (kashrut) was handed down orally for generations FROM MOSES before being formally codified in the Torah.Fascinating,seeing as Moses almost certainly didn't exist.
Quote:Many of the basic laws of kashrut are derived from the Torah's Books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, with their details set down in the oral law that according to Jewish tradition was handed down by word of mouth down the generations from Moses[1] and it was finally codified in the Mishnah which is the earliest portion of the Talmud. Later summaries of Halakhah such as the Shulhan Arukh, the Mishnah Berurah and other rabbinical authorities exist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher