This article presents religious views on unclean animals. For discussion in relation to specific animals and food, see Food and drink prohibitions.
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The pig is considered an unclean animal as food in Judaism and Islam, and parts of Christianity.
In some religions, an unclean animal is an animal whose consumption or handling is taboo. According to these religions, persons who handle such animals may need to ritually purify themselves to get rid of their uncleanliness.
religions, an uncleananimal is an animal whose consumption or handling is taboo. According to these religions, persons who handle such animals may need to...
In English translations of the Bible, unclean spirit is a common rendering of Greek pneuma akatharton (πνεῦμα ἀκάθαρτον; plural pneumata akatharta (πνεύματα...
up unclean in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Unclean may refer to: Uncleananimals, those whose consumption or handling is labeled a taboo Unclean food...
toilet Trichinosis Vegetarianism and religion – has a more complete list Uncleananimal Lucian of Samosata notes that they do indeed eat pork for followers...
only chew the cud or only have cloven hooves are unclean. Both documents explicitly list four animals as being ritually impure: The camel, for chewing...
obscene contact with a large sow (female pig), which in Judaism is an uncleananimal. These first appeared in the 13th century in Germany and some other...
Islamic law consider dogs as unclean (najis). The historian William Montgomery Watt states that Muhammad's kindness to animals was remarkable, citing an...
serpent (?) Bat — עֲטַלֵּף (ʿăṭallēp̲) in Hebrew; one of the unclean flying animals (per Leviticus 11:19; Deuteronomy 14:18). There are 14 species of...
the Labours of the Months. In Judaism, the rabbit is considered an uncleananimal, because "though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof." This...
Aaltonen, 2023) In Middle High German, Ungeziefer literally means "uncleananimal not suitable for sacrifice" and is sometimes used colloquially to mean...
Corpse uncleanness (Hebrew: tum'at met) is a state of ritual uncleanness described in Jewish halachic law. It is the highest grade of uncleanness, or defilement...
adopted the opposite attitude, that certain animals are unclean. The idea that divinity embodies itself in animals, such as a deity incarnate, and then lives...
adherent), "if the prophet meant 'the dog is an uncleananimal', ... he would have said 'the dog is an uncleananimal'" but they accept religious interference...
Clean and Unclean may refer to: Clean and uncleananimals, religious views on clean and uncleananimals Tumah and taharah, ritual "purity" and "impurity"...
(establishing rites of pagan observance in the Temple, or sacrificing an uncleananimal on the altar in the Holy of Holies). Antiochus forbids both circumcision...
non-vegetarian castes. Eaters of clean animals like goats and sheep are considered higher compared to those who consume uncleananimals like pigs and domesticated...
apparent exception to the normal rule that products of an uncleananimal are also unclean. This topic is covered in the Talmud and is explained to be...
in future, to be accompanied by a dog. The fact that the dog is an uncleananimal to both Hindu and Muslim made it easy for the Muslim conquerors to retain...
peoples. In Judaism and early Christianity tortoises were seen as uncleananimals. Tortoise shells were used by ancient Chinese as oracle bones to make...
consumption. Those animals that have neither of these two characteristics, or only one of the characteristics, are considered uncleananimals (treif, not fit...
such as Judit M. Blair (2009), who argues that the context indicates uncleananimals. The Septuagint translates both the reference to Lilith and the word...
people and the starling's resemblance to it, or that both birds are uncleananimals. The original Mishnaic Hebrew proverb is "לא לחינם הלך זרזיר אצל עורב...
(chapter 10) Uncleanliness and its treatment (11:1–15:33) Uncleananimals (chapter 11) Childbirth as a source of uncleanliness (chapter 12) Unclean diseases...
little to do with hygiene. For example, there is no evidence that the 'unclean' animals are intrinsically bad to eat or to be avoided in a Mediterranean climate...
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