[Sca-cooks] Kosher Laws
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Thu Apr 5 11:44:54 PDT 2012
The basis of Judaic dietary law (kashrut) are found in Exodus, Deuteronomy
and Leviticus. According to Judaic tradition, this would place the origins
of the dietary law at least as early as the 14th Century BCE, although the
first written version was 400 to 600 years later. Rabbinical
interpretations of the dietary law occur inb the Talmud as part of the
Mishna, the Jewish Oral Law, written down around 200 CE, and the Gemara, the
rabbinical elucidation of the Mishna from about 500 CE.
Islamic dietary law derives from the Qu'ran (written between 610 and 632
CE). The basic law is very similar to the Judaic dietary law. The base law
is largely fixed, but the determination of whether a food not mentioned in
the Qu'ran is halal (lawful) or haram (unlawful) falls to the religious
judges. As there are four major sects of Islamic law, differences of
opinion do occur, so that one sect may see a food as halal while another
sees it as haram. All sects recognize varying degrees under halal and
haram.
Bear
----- Original Message -----
How old are the Kosher laws? My apologies for not remembering the Islamic
name for the laws too.
Aelina
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