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In response to
"sure. a lot of the dietary restrictions, for example, make sense for a pre-technological world, from a public health perspective. -- nm"
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znufrii
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pretty much all of Leviticus is just a guide to keeping a very small number of people dying off.
Posted by
Guy (aka lostatlimbo)
Nov 13 '08, 13:51
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it limited infectious diseases of all sorts - sexual, food-borne, blood, etc.
the jews were whittled down to a handful and probably would have died of quickly if not for the somewhat revolutionary 'laws' about cleanliness.
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