Mr. Jack:
"These are the birds you must never eat because they are detestable for you: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey, the buzzard, kites of all kinds, ravens of all kinds, the ostrich, the nighthawk, the seagull, hawks of all kinds, the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, the white owl, the pelican, the carrion vulture, the stork, herons of all kinds, the hoopoe, and the bat.
If flight is the key, the
ostriches do not count as birds. Clearly they do. I.e., the Hebrew people
were ignorant as to the structure of bats.
quote:
on the basis of simpler morphological similarities (as the biblical writers appear to)?
Bats hardly have any morphological similarities to birds.
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"Illuminant light,
illuminate me."