[Sca-cooks] Metal Poisoning from the fork

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

What you're essentially saying is that a pope was suggesting Catholics keep 
 kosher. But this is extremely unlikely. Not only did Christians  regularly 
eat pork, the Visigoths specifically banned keeping kosher:

"VIII. Jews shall not Divide their Food into Clean and Unclean,  According 
to their Custom.
The blessed apostle Paul said, "To the pure all  things are pure," but 
nothing is pure to those who are 
defiled, because they  are unbelievers; and, for this reason, the execrable 
life of the Jews and  the 
vileness of their horrible belief, which is more foul than any other  
detestable error, must be destroyed 
and cast out. Therefore, no Jew shall  make a distinction between food 
which is clean and unclean, as 
established  by the customs and traditions of his ancient rites. No one 
shall perversely  refuse to eat food 
of any kind, whose condition is proved to be good. No one  shall reject one 
article of food, and accept 
another, unless the distinction  be such as is considered salutary and 
proper by all Christians. Anyone  
detected in the violation of this law shall be subjected to the punishment  
instituted for the same. "
 
http://libro.uca.edu/vcode/vg12-2.pdf
 
The early Church was so concerned with anything "Judaizing" that the  
passage you cite would, if anything, have incited Christians to do the opposite  
(as they did with pork). And why would the Penitentials then say (as they 
do)  that eating horsemeat was not customary, but nor was it forbidden, and 
that  eating hare was actually a good thing?

Honestly, I think if a pope had  meant to relate this to a specific 
Biblical injunction, he would (like the law  above) have cited it. But Zachary did 
not. And again, it is very unlikely that a  Catholic pope of the period 
would have (even implicitly) referenced  kashrut.
 
 
Jim  Chevallier
_www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/) 

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In a message dated 5/14/2014 11:48:53 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
rcarrollmann at gmail.com writes:

The
horse is not discussed in the verses about kosher animals,  but as it does
not have a cloven hoof *and* does not chew its cud, its  status is clear.
These rules, with other examples, are repeated in  Deuteronomy  14.