Why Do Pigs Become So Sacred?

In the beginning, Palestinians didn’t live a so-called “religious life”. It was messy, all over the place, even though mental notes of the Jewish God seemed to be everywhere in life of the first century. It seemed to be that the mood of the religion seemed to change with the wind or seasons for that matter. It also wasn’t like that in just one region, but throughout the whole land that considered and claimed Judaism. The most sacred and restricted food was the pig, which honestly is no surprise considering that’s the way it has been since the beginning. An interesting read was one that the reason pigs are so sacred is because the Hasmoneans attacked the Seleucids with meat cleavers. Still to this day, the Hasmoneans were considered heroes. One way to be sure that people of the first century didn’t eat pigs because the pigs’ bones were never found when archaeologists surveyed the land. With that being stated, just because no pig bones were found doesn’t mean that people did not and still don’t speculate if inhabitants ingested the sacred animal or not. Most people of the …show more content…
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