Teaching the Truth in Schools

Paul:There is no Leviticus, Chapter 6, Verse 28.Please give corrected reference so I can better understand and enjoy this thread. Thanks.

Okay, Paul, I looked it up in "KJV" and there is a Leviticus 6:28 which corresponds with 6:21 in the Schocken Bible I'm using for a more direct translation from Hebrew. Anyway, the way I read it is, "Now a vessel of earthenware in which it was boiled is to be broken; if it was in a copper vessel that it was boiled, it is to be scoured and rinsed with water." The footnote available for the verse says "earthenware was considered porous, and therefore could not be washed and purified." As you may know, earthenware vessels made even today are "low fired" ceramics in which one can boil directly on a flame without the vessel cracking; however, the low-fired clay is not vitrified sufficiently to prevent its taking up some of the contents into the body of the clay vessel, and therefore indeed cannot be cleansed sufficiently to prevent food poisoning.

Attempting to read it "in context," I am only able to understand it this far:a) The "hattat" offering is to absolve sin or wrong-doing that is brought upon the entire community by the actions of leaders or priests.b) A vessel that touches any part of the blood or flesh of the hattat offering "becomes holy" by some interpretations of the Hebrew phrasiology, or "must be in a holy state" by other interpretations, and then "must be kept apart."c) This particular offering appears to be the "holiest holy-portion" therefore apparently the scouring and rinsing of the copper or "brazen" vessel to purify it may be so that no remaining part regardless of how scant will come in contact with some other less holy offering if the vessels should get mixed up in a subsequent nomadic move.d) In the context of (c) I can see the "non-dietary" reason for destroying a porous clay vessel.Other than that scenario, I am at a total loss for an explanation.[This message has been edited by Abshalom, 12-08-2003]

Quote: "The Papyrus Ebers, an ancient Egyptian medical transcript, contains hundreds of prescriptions for a variety of ills. It was written by a people who are historically recognized as the leaders of their time in the fields of astronomy and engineering. You would expect that their medical knowledge would be equally as great. Certainly the ancient Egyptians themselves thought so, and prided themselves on it. And yet the Papyrus Ebers, and other such texts, show their knowledge of medicine to be horribly primitive, often ineffective and even deadly. For examples:
* The treatment for healing an infected splinter wound includes applying a mixture containing the blood of worms and donkey dung. Consider the many deadly diseases to be found in common donkey dung, including tetanus."Source: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7234/allsickness.htmlThe article also comments of Moses's "medicinal" protocol and relates it to Egyptian practices of about the same time period.