From ninar@techpointer.com Wed Apr 25 14:44:10 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: ninar@techpointer.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 25 Apr 2001 21:44:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 10210 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2001 21:44:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 25 Apr 2001 21:44:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fg.egroups.com) (208.50.144.70) by mta1 with SMTP; 25 Apr 2001 21:44:09 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: ninar@techpointer.com Received: from [10.1.2.30] by fg.egroups.com with NNFMP; 25 Apr 2001 21:44:08 -0000 Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 21:44:07 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Mark 1:5-6 Message-ID: <9c7gf7+r35o@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <47.a4bc15f.2815bbda@aol.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 1069 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 156.153.255.196 From: ninar@techpointer.com I'll be darned. Deuteronomy 14:19 says, "All flying insects that swarm are unclean to you; do not eat them." JB always seemed such a tough guy that eating locusts was just part of his charm. I guess I can change it to "cilce dembi", as funny as that sounds. NR --- In lojban@y..., pycyn@a... wrote: > I always (well after the frisson the first time I heard the story) thought > that the locuust on which John fed was the bean, not the bug. Carob ("St. > John's Bread" after all) would be a more reliable source of a better quality > food than even a non-migratory salterinal orthopter, both of whose > descriotions suggest they are hard to catch. "Akris," the Greek word > involved, seems to be ambiguous just like the English "locust." The Hebrew > situation is strange: carob seems never to be mentioned in the Bible -- in > spite of being all over the place. On the other hand, I have heard (but > cannot now trace down) the claim that one kind of locust-bug is mentioned in > the rules somewhere (Leviticus?) where a plant would make more sense.