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| 1351.1 | | SMARTT::DGAUTHIER | | Mon Apr 28 1997 19:23 | 18 |
| I dunno Richard. It's pretty clear that it's not looked upon very
highly. In Leviticus, it's called "detestable" outright. Yet, in
Psalm, Job and Luke, God feeds them as he does all other animals. In
I Kings, the ravens feed Elijah while in exile and in Genesis they
look for land for Noah. They are the "good guys" at times.
They may have a role in the Bible as being agents which eat, or purge,
the world of foul things. They live in the wasteland (ref Isaiah) and
are scavangers. For that, they are not to be eaten and are called
detestable. Yet God provides for them and they provide a service to
the world and God.
I wonder how/why they became a symbol of bad luck or thought to be
servants of the devil.
-dave
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| 1351.2 | | CSC32::J_CHRISTIE | Spigot of pithiness | Mon Apr 28 1997 21:07 | 4 |
| .1 Yes, scavengers. I think you're onto something.
Richard
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| 1351.3 | | THOLIN::TBAKER | Flawed To Perfection | Mon Apr 28 1997 21:16 | 1 |
| Does that mean lobsters are out, too?
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| 1351.4 | | CSC32::M_EVANS | be the village | Mon Apr 28 1997 22:36 | 10 |
| Last time I checked Lobsters were not kosher.
But, where would the world be without scavengers? My oldest told me
there is a sortof party in at Carlsbad and Guadalupe national parks
when the buzzards come back in the spring. An entire winter's worth of
dead animals goes away in short order, making things far more pleasant
on some of the back country trails and on the BLM land they help to
maintain. Guess dead cows from November to February get pretty ripe.
meg
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| 1351.5 | | SMARTT::DGAUTHIER | | Tue Apr 29 1997 12:59 | 6 |
| >.1 Yes, scavengers. I think you're onto something.
You sound like a professor I knew, holding back on the answers,
encouraging us as we'd work through reasoning things out :-)
-dave
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| 1351.6 | | CSC32::J_CHRISTIE | Spigot of pithiness | Tue Apr 29 1997 19:25 | 9 |
| .5
> You sound like a professor I knew, holding back on the answers,
> encouraging us as we'd work through reasoning things out :-)
I confess, I sometimes do that. Not in this instance, however.
Richard
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