SC - Pork or Boar in the Holy Land

[Laura C. Minnick]

Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
> 
> Some private conversants wrote, in the presence of my flapping ears,

Actually, that was the next post, but oh well...

> > Seumas and I watched 'Stealing Heaven' this weekend- a movie about
> > Abelard and Heloise that I greatly recommend- anyway, in it, Heloise
> > stumps the Bishop by asking why there were even pigs in the area
> > (discussion being about the swine that Christ put some homeless demons
> > into- which immediately became piggy-burger at the bottom of a cliff)
> > when the Jews weren't allowed to raise or eat them. He can't answer, but
> > her first encounter with Abelard ends with his passing on the suggestion
> > that the pigs belonged to the Romans, who did raise and eat pork.
> 
> These are referred to in the King James Bible, I think, as the Gadarene
> swine. I can't find that in the regular dictionary, but if it is a place
> name or a reference to some culture it may provide a clue as to who
> these non-Kashrut-keepers might have been.
 
I have no idea where my KJV is (prolly In The Basement) but after many
many years in Sunday School I seem to remember that it is a place name.
I could be wrong- one of my many failings according to Dad.

'Lainie