ANTB64H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pareve
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When you violate a food norm of a community, you could be seen as defiling that community could be doing something seen as spiritually harmful food acted as a language b/w jews and their god, people and their animals they already have prescriptions of what to do food; incredible sense of language; you can show how you care about somebody, you can show whether you reject or accept them if god was seen as the creator of the community; jesus was seen as conferring life, by providing for his people to feed; is to bless to feed bad food; is to starve, punish, sentence of death contradiction; jewish god gives people land of food and honey but ppl violate what he has set as the law, so then he gets angry people today; give food or take away food as punishment its not just accepting care, but accepting gods food but accepting his power and authority.
