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Post by Liberator on Nov 25, 2009 16:24:54 GMT
Cult CrackpotteryI hope they realise he was a Jew and therefore did not eat crustacea and shellfish. They seem however to have forgotten that he probably did eat a lot of real fish.
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Post by chefmate on Nov 26, 2009 13:45:14 GMT
I think most people forget Jesus was a Jew and a middle eastener......wonder how that flys with the white supremeists who think they are above all others?
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Post by alanseago on Nov 27, 2009 8:15:47 GMT
Like most glatt koscher jews he probably ate fish, goat arabic bread and occasionally chicken. Remember his parents were from Nazareth, an Arabic town where dietary regulations were strict, mainly for health reasons. One presumes he drank wine at meals.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2009 8:26:38 GMT
Yes, but if you read the article you will see that God also created blue cheese dressing and pepperoni pizza. He put them there for a reason! Happily, I don't believe in God so can refuse them with a clear conscience.
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Post by jean on Nov 27, 2009 9:32:43 GMT
Don't forget the title includes the word would - fill in your own conditionals: if he were living now, if he weren't Jewish, if he could afford it - anything you like, really.
A different question would be What would Jesus have eaten, which attempts to establish what he actually did eat.
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Post by chefmate on Nov 28, 2009 13:05:20 GMT
Wouldn't Jesus have eaten what the other Jews were eating? He wouldn't have broken the rules of the Old Testament in my belief.
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Post by Liberator on Nov 28, 2009 14:18:41 GMT
He couldn't. Nothing else would have been available! True, we have the herd of pigs which shows that he evidently did not restrict himself to Jewish areas. But then precious little of the major cities was 'Jewish'. Herod the Great built most of it and apart from Jerusalem he did so on the Hellenistic pattern complete with temples for all the major deities. He may have been a murderous swine but he was an equal-rights murderous swine!
From the prominence of fishing in the gospels (intended after all as the Revelation for the Age of Pisces) he would have eaten a lot of it, so no protein deficiencies there! The ancients, especially Greeks who predominated, preferred fish to meat. Religion plays a large part there. Male animals unwanted for milk would obviously be better for one's spiritual health as a sacrifice, but sacrificial meat was roasted whole and eaten on site as part of the 'communion'. Which meant that what you got was variable!
Jesus obviously is not going to participate in pagan festivities and there can't have been much cattle around for the Jerusalem Temple. The gospel gives the impression of pigeons for sale and while Arab food includes a lot more pigeon than chicken, it is not something that is going to be shared out in a feast!
In fact there is an 'interesting' little follow-up here that relates to the Last Supper. This is supposed to have been Passover but without the Paschal Lamb (and held on the wrong day). The absence of lamb is usually explained as Jesus playing the part - as like sure, everybody knew the part written out for them! Hugh Shonfield quotes an ancient writer that of the some two dozen Jewish sects around at the time, certain Essenes rejected both eating and sacrificing animals (they preferred flowers) and a couple of other things I forget that tie in with Christianity. That would explain the lack of lamb. It could also explain the 'cleansing of the temple' depending on which Greek word is translated as 'thieves': if it is the same word used to describe the men crucified with Jesus ('lehstehs' - propaganda of the day meaning 'terrorist') then it is less the sale that Jesus is attacking than the slaughter and should better read better 'bandits'. The reason for holding Passover on the wrong day would be that some Essenes also believed the calendar had been corrupted from its ancient divine origin.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2009 15:20:10 GMT
Don't forget the title includes the word would - fill in your own conditionals: if he were living now, if he weren't Jewish, if he could afford it - anything you like, really. A different question would be What would Jesus have eaten, which attempts to establish what he actually did eat. Yes, when I saw the thread title I wondered if we would be debating whether Jesus would be a vegan if he came to earth today!
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