I used to hunt and sometimes it may take a few hours to find your deer. Just making a point of what happens when you try to control people in a legalistic approach, you get all these crazy laws. Also I don't want people thinking I'm a roadkill eating redneck.
What is the time limit to eat a found dead animal and not be punished?
by Joe Witless 23 Replies latest watchtower medical
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peacefulpete
There are 3 places in the OT where this prohibition appears. Each was written by a separate author. If you are familiar with the Documentary Hypothesis you may understand why.First Ex. 22:31 (JE) prohibits eating found dead animals but makes no association with a prohibition of eating blood. He in fact specifies it be given to their dogs to eat.
Lev 17:15 (P) abruptly inserts the prohibition within a discussion of the blood prohibition seeemingly connecting the two prohibitions. He also forbids foreigners in the land from eating blood.(17:12) At 7:24 a dead animal may be used but not eaten. 22:8 repeats the prohibition against eating without any association with blood.
Deut. 14:21 (D) repeats JE without associating the dead animal prohibition with the blood prohibition. He specifically says dead animals can be sold as food to foreigners.
I am suspect that the dead animal prohibition in Lev 17 was relocated at some point perhaps it was accidentally repeated from 22:8 or deliberately done by copyist who felt the need for a justification for the prohibition. There does not seem to be any evidence JE or D felt that the blood in the flesh was the issue. They likely had cultic normalcies/conventions that made eating without killing feel inappropriate. Buddhists for example forbid the eating of found dead animals for ceremonial reasons rather than health or out of a concern about eating blood.
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LuckyNun
Mcdonalds gets their meat from animals that have been dead for up to 3 days w/out being processed..Yet,I see lots of JWs there getting lunch..Maybe they didnt read "FASTFOOD NATION"?
oh, I read that book! that on top of the documentary about that guy who ate it for a month staright...I haven't been back since. as far as finding a dead animal...I'd bury it for fertilizer and then grow some plants on top of it. now, if I saw it die and was able to run over and pick it up...free squirrel steak!
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