Showing posts with label Atlantis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Atlantis. Show all posts

Wednesday 17 August 2016

Juno

Is that for us...?
"Jove's lightnings, the precursors
O' the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary
And sight-outrunning were not; the fire and cracks
Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune
Seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble,
Yea, his dread trident shake."

What subject can give sentence on his King?
And who sits here that is not Richard's subject?
Thieves are not judged but they are by to hear,
Although apparent guilt be seen in them;
And shall the figure of God's majesty,
His captain, steward, deputy-elect,
Anointed, crowned, planted many years,
Be judged by subject and inferior breath,
And he himself not present? O, forfend it, God,
That in a Christian climate souls refined
Should show so heinous, black, obscene a deed!


PROSPERO
MIRANDA sleeps
Come away, servant, come. I am ready now.
Approach, my Ariel, come.
Enter ARIEL
ARIEL
All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come
To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly,
To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride
On the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task
Ariel and all his quality.
PROSPERO
Hast thou, spirit,
Perform'd to point the tempest that I bade thee?
ARIEL
To every article.
I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak,
Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin,
I flamed amazement: sometime I'ld divide,
And burn in many places; on the topmast,
The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly,
Then meet and join. JOVE'S lightnings, the precursors
O' the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary
And sight-out running were not; the fire and cracks
Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune
Seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble,
Yea, his dread trident shake.
PROSPERO
My brave spirit!
Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil
Would not infect his reason?
ARIEL
Not a soul
But felt a fever of the mad and play'd
Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners
Plunged in the foaming brine and quit the vessel,
Then all afire with me: the King's son, Ferdinand,
With hair up-staring,--then like reeds, not hair,--
Was the first man that leap'd; cried, 'Hell is empty
And all the devils are here.'
PROSPERO
Why that's my spirit!
But was not this nigh shore?
ARIEL
Close by, my master.
PROSPERO
But are they, Ariel, safe?
ARIEL
Not a hair perish'd;
On their sustaining garments not a blemish,
But fresher than before: and, as thou badest me,
In troops I have dispersed them 'bout the isle.
The king's son have I landed by himself;
Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs
In an odd angle of the isle and sitting,
His arms in this sad knot.
PROSPERO
Of the king's ship
The mariners say how thou hast disposed
And all the rest o' the fleet.

PROSPERO
Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves,
And ye that on the sands with printless foot
Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him
When he comes back; you demi-puppets that
By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make,
Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime
Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice
To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid,
Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'd
The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds,
And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault
Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder
Have I given fire and rifted JOVE'S stout oak
With his own bolt; the strong-based promontory
Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up
The pine and cedar: graves at my command
Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth
By my so potent art. But this rough magic
I here abjure, and, when I have required
Some heavenly music, which even now I do,
To work mine end upon their senses that
This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound

I'll drown my book.
Solemn music
*********

KING HENRY V
What's he that wishes so?
My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin:
If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By JOVE, I am not covetous for GOLD,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires:
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England:
God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more, methinks, would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
********

Re-enter Lords, with EXETER and train
KING OF FRANCE
From our brother England?
EXETER
From him; and thus he greets your majesty.
He wills you, in the name of God Almighty,
That you divest yourself, and lay apart
The borrow'd glories that by gift of heaven,
By law of nature and of nations, 'long
To him and to his heirs; namely, the crown
And all wide-stretched honours that pertain
By custom and the ordinance of times
Unto the crown of France. That you may know
'Tis no sinister nor no awkward claim,
Pick'd from the worm-holes of long-vanish'd days,
Nor from the dust of old oblivion raked,
He sends you this most memorable line,
In every branch truly demonstrative;
Willing to overlook this pedigree:
And when you find him evenly derived
From his most famed of famous ancestors,
Edward the Third, he bids you then resign
Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held
From him the native and true challenger.
KING OF FRANCE
Or else what follows?
EXETER
Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown
Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it:
Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming,
In thunder and in earthquake, like a JOVE,
That, if requiring fail, he will compel;

And bids you, in the bowels of the Lord,
Deliver up the crown, and to take mercy
On the poor souls for whom this hungry war
Opens his vasty jaws; and on your head
Turning the widows' tears, the orphans' cries
The dead men's blood, the pining maidens groans,
For husbands, fathers and betrothed lovers,
That shall be swallow'd in this controversy.
This is his claim, his threatening and my message;
Unless the Dauphin be in presence here,
To whom expressly I bring greeting too.

*******

KING LEAR
I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad:
I will not trouble thee, my child; farewell:
We'll no more meet, no more see one another:
But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter;
Or rather a disease that's in my flesh,
Which I must needs call mine: thou art a boil,
A plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle,
In my corrupted blood. But I'll not chide thee;
Let shame come when it will, I do not call it:
I do not bid the thunder-bearer shoot,
Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging JOVE:
Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure:
I can be patient; I can stay with Regan,
I and my hundred knights.

********

KING LEAR
Hear me, recreant!
On thine allegiance, hear me!
Since thou hast sought to make us break our vow,
Which we durst never yet, and with strain'd pride
To come between our sentence and our power,
Which nor our nature nor our place can bear,
Our potency made good, take thy reward.
Five days we do allot thee, for provision
To shield thee from diseases of the world;
And on the sixth to turn thy hated back
Upon our kingdom: if, on the tenth day following,
Thy banish'd trunk be found in our dominions,
The moment is thy death. Away! by JUPITER,
This shall not be revoked.
************

Fool
Ha, ha! he wears cruel garters. Horses are tied
by the heads, dogs and bears by the neck, monkeys by
the loins, and men by the legs: when a man's
over-lusty at legs, then he wears wooden
nether-stocks.
KING LEAR
What's he that hath so much thy place mistook
To set thee here?
KENT
It is both he and she;
Your son and daughter.
KING LEAR
No.
KENT
Yes.
KING LEAR
No, I say.
KENT
I say, yea.
KING LEAR
No, no, they would not.
KENT
Yes, they have.
KING LEAR
By JUPITER, I swear, no.
KENT
By JUNO, I swear, ay.
KING LEAR
They durst not do 't;
They could not, would not do 't; 'tis worse than murder,
To do upon respect such violent outrage:
Resolve me, with all modest haste, which way
Thou mightst deserve, or they impose, this usage,
Coming from us.




FADE IN: EXT. THE WHITE HOUSE COLONNADE - DAY 
Bartlet and C.J., along with other aides behind them are walking down the colonnade.

BARTLET 
Galileo V.

C.J. 
Yes, sir.

BARTLET 
Just the name...

C.J. 
Galileo V!

BARTLET 
You can feel the adventure.

C.J. 
Yes, indeed.

BARTLET 
NASA's great at naming things.

C.J. 
They are.

BARTLET 
Mercury, Apollo, Atlantis, the Sea of Tranquility, the Ocean of Storms...

C.J. 
Good names!

BARTLET 
First time I heard 'Galileo V,' the way the imagination immediately... It reminded me of the way folks in my generation felt when we heard "Yellow Submarine."

C.J. 
Okay.

BARTLET 
We really did all want to live in a yellow submarine.

C.J. 
I can't believe they gave you people drivers' licenses.

BARTLET 
Tell me where we're going again.

C.J. 
Mars briefing rehearsal.

BARTLET 
Why?

C.J. 
To rehearse.

BARTLET 
Say the name.

C.J. 
I said the name.

BARTLET 
Say it again. Your imagination, like a child, will explode with unrestrained possibilities for adventure.

C.J. [with gusto] 
Galileo FIVE!

BARTLET 
You didn't say it right.

C.J. 
I said it fine!

BARTLET 
Say it again.

CUT TO: 
INT. MARS BRIEFING REHEARSAL - DAY 
The TelePrompTer shows the name 'Galileo' on it and Sam's head pops up. The crewmembers of the NASA Public Affairs are around the place.

SAM 
Who wrote this intro?

SCOTT TATE 
I did.

SAM 
You're from NASA Public Affairs?

TATE 
Yep.

SAM 
You mind if I give it a polish?

TATE 
Is there a problem?

SAM 
No, it's great. You mind if I change it?

TATE 
I'd prefer if you didn't.

SAM 
Just the same...

TATE 
The Public Affairs has cleared the text. If it's gonna be changed, I'd prefer that the President change it.

SAM 
See, that's kind of what he pays me to do, so...

TATE 
Look, I don't want to step on your toes. You don't want to step on mine. We're both writers.

SAM 
Yes, I suppose, if you broaden the definition to those who can't spell.

TATE 
Excuse me?

Bartlet walks in with C.J.

BARTLET 
Good morning!

EVERYONE 
Good morning, Mr. President.

C.J. Sir, this is the crew from NASA Public Affairs.

BARTLET 
How you doing?

C.J. 
Sir, we're going to run you through the drill for tomorrow morning. First of all, you'll be flanked on either side by the Flight Operations Manager David Narakawa and NASA Chief Administrator Dr. Peter Jobson. On either side of them will be Dr. Samuel Thurman of the Meteorite Analysis team from the Johnson Space Center, and Dr. Joyce Grey-Sutton, Planetary Geologist from Cal State Northridge. On these monitors you'll be seeing the images beamed back from the surface and on this computer screen you'll be able to read the questions being sent in by the kids. 

I strongly urge you...

BARTLET 
Yes.

C.J. 
I strongly urge you...

BARTLET 
I know.

C.J. 
I strongly urge you, Mr. President, to act as moderator and pass the questions of to one of the experts on the panel rather than answer it yourself.

BARTLET 
Yes.

C.J. 
Would you like to see some of the questions?

BARTLET 
We have questions in advance?

C.J. 
Some of them. Would you put them on?

CREWMEMBER [OS] 
Sure.

Bartlet sits on one of the chairs in the front and reads from the computer monitor.

BARTLET 
Katie, sixth grade, Green Oaks Junior High School, Austin, Texas, asks, 
"How old is the planet Mars?
That's a great question, Katie. The planet Mars is 4.6 billion years old.

C.J. 
What did I just say?

BARTLET 
I knew that one.

C.J. 
Nobody likes a know-it-all!

BARTLET 
Yes, God forbid, that while talking to 60,000 public school students, the President should appear smart!

C.J. 
That's fine. Just don't show off.

BARTLET 
I don't show off. 

[reads again

Stevie, fourth grader, PS 31, Manhattan, asks, "What is the temperature on Mars?" 
Well, Stevie, if one of our expert panelists were here, they would tell you the average temperature ranges from 15 degrees to minus 140.

C.J. 
[looking through her papers]
 That happens to be wrong. It ranges from 60 to minus 225.

BARTLET 
I converted it to Celsius in my head.

C.J. 
Thank you.

BARTLET 
Can I see the intro?

SAM 
It's up on the Prompter.

BARTLET 
[reads
"Good morning! I'm speaking to you live from the West Wing of the White House. Today we have a very unique opportunity to take part live in an extremely historic event which..." 
Whoa, boy...

SAM 
[waves and smiles
How you doing, Mr. President?

BARTLET 
Who wrote this intro?

TATE 
I did, sir. I'm Scott Tate from NASA Public Affairs.

BARTLET
 [gets up and shakes his hand]
Scott. 
"Unique" means "one of a kind." 
Something can't be very unique, nor can it be extremely historic.

C.J. 
While we're at it, do we have to use the word "live" twice in the first two sentences like we just cracked the technology?

TATE
Look...

C.J. 
We're also broadcasting in living color, right?

BARTLET 
Sam?

SAM 
Yeah.

BARTLET [to Tate
He's gonna make some changes.

TATE [following Sam
You're going to clear them with me?

SAM 
I doubt it. 
[to a recording staffer

Write this: 

"Good morning. Eleven months ago a 1200 pound spacecraft blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Eighteen hours ago..."
Is it eighteen hours ago? We're on the air at noon eastern.

C.J. 
Yeah.

SAM 
"Eighteen hours ago it landed on the planet Mars. You, me, and 60,000 of your fellow students across the country along with astroscientists and engineers from the Jet Propulsion Lab in Southern California, NASA Houston, and right here, at the White House, are going to be the first to see what it sees, and to chronicle an extraordinary voyage of an unmanned ship called Galileo V."

BARTLET 
[taps C.J. on the arm] 
He said it right.

C.J. nods.

SMASH CUT TO: MAIN TITLES. 
END TEASER

BUT IT HAS THE WRONG NAME...

"Well this is a new ship. But she's got the right name. Now you remember that, you hear?"

"I will sir."

"You treat her like a lady. And she'll always bring you home."

- Admiral Leonard McCoy and Lt. Commander Data






PROSPERO
I'll deliver all;
And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales
And sail so expeditious that shall catch
Your royal fleet far off.
Aside to ARIEL
My Ariel, chick,
That is thy charge: then to the elements
Be free, and fare thou well! Please you, draw near.
Exeunt

EPILOGUE
SPOKEN BY PROSPERO

Now my charms are all o'erthrown,
And what strength I have's mine own,
Which is most faint: now, 'tis true,
I must be here confined by you,
Or sent to Naples. Let me not,
Since I have my dukedom got
And pardon'd the deceiver, dwell
In this bare island by your spell;
But release me from my bands
With the help of your good hands:
Gentle breath of yours my sails
Must fill, or else my project fails,
Which was to please. Now I want
Spirits to enforce, art to enchant,
And my ending is despair,
Unless I be relieved by prayer,
Which pierces so that it assaults
Mercy itself and frees all faults.
As you from crimes would pardon'd be,
Let your indulgence set me free.


Wednesday 13 July 2016

Battle Bridge Road











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 with both names meaning simply 'vuztorious ons' This information comes from Folk Heroes ofBrituin bY Charles Knightly [Th1 nnes 8: Hudson, 1984) K , wtuy abp Vu an account of the reasoning b3md mppceing Boudioa's 1J'1be, the Iceni, no be rnatnlinenl in dmemr, of Ume rape of her daughters, and of Mr subsequentvengeance-
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 undoing Had she followed the retreating Roman garrison she may have wiped them out before they were able to joi.n up unto the Fourteenth and Twentieth begmorss who were at the time positioned far away in Wales As it was, however, the Romans were able ho regroup and return to London with renewed forces. A suatamod auxprnse attack such as Boud¢a's revolt light actually have driven the Romans from Briton, at least for a while, but very few arnnescould wand agpmst the Roman war machine once it was properly prepared for battle The Romans recldmed London,
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 mainnnms that :ha was buried at a spot on Pnmroae Hill, one of the London mounds most sacred to the Dnuds, who were BoLld1ca's ashes.
 Other vananta suggest that the Quaens's body was taken away from Roman-occupled London by faithful followers Md burred at a8;ot called Deadquenesmove, near vlllalge of Sllversbom> Northampton fire, dlisaleabemgthe Iutremfilgeof the anc:.ent Britons that the Roman mvaslon had dwplnced.
 Other aourcas consLLl1Jed upon Boad1¢:ajBoudlca Include Aurora by Jenifer Westwood [Paladln Books, 1987), Landon by Christopher Hilbert (lnllglnans, Green 8: Co Ltd 1969); ad TheAquanan Gide to Legendary London, opined by John Manltews 8: Chesca Potter (Aquamn Pleas, 1990) amongst others, mcludmga helplial pamphlet by Chesca Potter entitled Mysterious Kmgis Crwoss (Golden Dawn, 1987).
 Battle Badge Road is a dismal back street bounded by a large gasometer on one side and n vow of Victorian slum housman the other.
 The 1egend'6o People hw Hara' ha boon panned on the aide off endterrace house by some embmtbeved lender: deposited tzherem by the Department al' Social Security Off ho one side Mn: .n winnow and dervelid dleywav name Clarence Passage, the Windows now blind and smashed, with weeds thrusting up between die paving stones. Gu11's eommenizary upon the matriwntral ongms of human society are n paraphraslllg of the notions put forward by Robert Graves M his book The Musa Goddess, iN 'l"l110h he suggests that hanan soclety was mother-cenNerled urltll males finally Figured out their role m procreat1on, at which point some form of
 pnnnarchfd rvevoluutlon took place While Glavss' informedqaeculntions prone a basis l'Qr the theammg of most contemporary feminist hutonans and commentators upon women? mysteries, Lt 1.9 worth poring out that they an Jud thzut: informed spoculatnorn This 1: mt to saythnttheyazeuntrueq amply that Um me unproven.
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 speculation upon the l.uurping of female power by men, the reader is referred to Beyond Power': On Melt, Woman 8 Morals by lW=ri]yl:1 French [Jonathan Cape Ltd , 1985) French providesan e:0:el1en1t commentary upon the technique of subjugating womanhood by
 first demoing and destlowing the symlxnls of womanhood, namely the mother goddesses that formed Ume b8sls for our earnest religions, at leestnccordm8to Robert Gravis and has [partly inltultivws) sources.
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 G.Lll's amoral n Albion Dive would seam a good aplaoe as any to mentor the bash for the musings upon the all.gl1Jnuentl oflandon that make Up so much of the substance of this chapter. In his ]engLhy and t_fyp 1ca1l5r dense nanatlve poem Loa' Heat (Goldnnuk, Up]>i.nghl.nn, 1987), lam Sinclair bangs the 1eader's attantuon to the clwnmches of Nlcholas Hawksmoor and that aeemmg ahgnnnents, both with each other and wldu other London monuments of note and Important As part of the narrative, Sinclair includes a map Qr the 8 Gveut Churches The £13168 of influence, the mullstble pods qfforce active m this did, which I believe wm drawn by a friend of S 1nclaJr's, the remarkable poet and sculptor Brian Catljng Tels map, while suggestive ofmnany shapes, do not provide the shape that I was looking for until a couple of further points wen added 

Friday 20 May 2016

The Shellfish Thing

Hexaplex trunculus is a medium-sized species of sea snail was found on the north part of Israeli coastal plain near Tel Shikmona

Leviticus 11:9-12

King James Version (KJV)

These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.
10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.
12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.


A guide from the Ptil Tekhelet Foundation shows how a piece of wool, dipped into the solution for the Hexaplex (Murex) trunculus based dye, turns into leek-like green in sunlight, and eventually into (dark) blue with a purple hue.


Numbers 15 :

37 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

38 Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:

39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them ; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:

40 That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.

41 I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God.

Tzitzit (tassel) with blue thread produced from Hexaplex (Murex) trunculus


Structural formula of Hexaplex (Murex) spp. based blue, the tekhelet indigo 
(note the two bromides: in marine environments, 
sodium bromide is abundant, 
not so in terrestrial ones)

 Tekhelet (Hebrew: תכלת təḵêleṯ, "blue-violet", or "blue", or "turquoise" (alternate spellings include tekheleth, t'chelet, techelet and techeiles) is a blue dye mentioned 49 times in the Hebrew Bible/Tanakh. It was used in the clothing of the High Priest, the tapestries in the Tabernacle, and the tassels (Hebrew: ציצית, Tzitzit (or á¹¢iá¹£iyot) [tsiˈtsit], pl. Tzitziyot or á¹¢iá¹£iyot) affixed to the corners of one's four-cornered garment, such as the Tallit (garment worn during prayer, usually).

According to the Talmud, the dye of Tekhelet was produced from a marine creature known as the Ḥillazon (also spelled Chilazon). According to the Tosefta (Men. 9:6), the Ḥillazon is the exclusive source of the dye.

After the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans, the sole use of the Tekhelet dye was in Tzitzit. A set of Tzitzit consists of four tassels, some of their strands being Tekhelet, which Rashi describes as green as “poireau,” the French word for leek, transliterated into Hebrew. There are three opinions in Rabbinic literature as to how many are to be blue: 2 strings; 1 string; 1 half string. These strands are then threaded and hang down, appearing to be eight. The four strands are passed through a hole 25 to 50 mm away from the corners of the four-cornered cloth.



Making Sense of Kosher Laws - Biblical Archaeology Society

Biblical Archaeology Society Staff
This Bible History Daily feature was originally published in July 2012. It has been updated.—Ed.




The origins of Jewish dietary or kosher laws (kashrut) have long been the subject of scholarly research and debate. Regardless of their origins, however, these age-old laws continue to have a significant impact on the way many observant Jews go about their daily lives. One of the more well-known restrictions is the injunction against mixing meat with dairy products. Not only do most Jews who observe kashrut avoid eating any meat and milk products together, many also wait a certain amount of time—30 minutes to a few hours—between eating meat and dairy. Everything the foods touch must be kept completely separate. A fully kosher household, for example, might have two or more different sets of flatware, tableware and cooking ware for making and serving meat dishes separate from dairy-based dishes. Some families even use two different dishwashers in order to maintain the separation. Outside the house, some Jews keep kosher by eating only at kosher restaurants while others have no problem eating non-kosher foods, so long as they maintain a kosher home.
But what are some of the other laws of kashrut, and how are they to be explained? Many of the dietary restrictions outlined in Deuteronomy and Leviticus prohibit the consumption of certain “unclean” animals that either don’t chew their cud or don’t have cloven hooves, such as pigs, camels and rabbits. Likewise, while the Hebrew Bible permits the eating of fish with fins and scales, shellfish like lobsters and crabs are an abomination. Why were such seemingly innocuous physiological traits so objectionable to the early Israelites?
One possible reason may be that the Israelites wanted some way to distinguish themselves from their non-Hebrew neighbors. Archaeological excavations of Iron Age I sites in Israel have shown that while pigs were a popular part of the Philistine diet, they were entirely absent from the herd-based economy of the Israelites. According to Ronald Hendel, such culinary distinctions soon became codified markers of cultural identity, whereby “the Philistine treat became an Israelite taboo.”
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Perhaps similar efforts to affirm Israel’s uniqueness lay at the heart of other animal prohibitions.
But according to kashrut, even permissible animals have to be prepared in a certain way in order to remain kosher. As explained in Deuteronomy 12:23-24, for example, the blood of a slaughtered animal cannot be ingested, for “the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.” The Israelites, like many ancient peoples, believed that an animal’s blood carried the soul of the animal and therefore should not be consumed.** Thus, before a piece of meat could be cooked, it had to be fully drained of its blood. Though not discussed in the Bible, traditional kosher methods for doing this include broiling the meat or a combination of soaking and salting.
Kosher law also forbids the consumption of wine that has been made, bottled or handled by non-Jews. Although this prohibition does not appear in the Hebrew Bible, it seems to have been followed as early as the second century A.D. In antiquity, wine was often used in libation rituals to various deities; for Jews this meant that any “pagan” wine could potentially have been made or used as a sacrifice to a foreign god. Thus, in order to avoid coming into contact with contaminated wine, Jews began making and bottling their own wine in accordance with Jewish law.

Notes

*Ronald S. Hendel, “Of Sacred Leopards and Abominable Pigs,” Bible Review, October 2000.
**Bryan Bibb, “What’s a Pleasing Sacrifice?” Bible Review, October 2004.