Accepting under this tweet your theories about why Islam bothered to prohibit the consumption of pork given that Arabs did not eat pork or keep pigs anyway (you can't herd them, and you need permanent water to raise them anyway). I have my own theories but curious to hear yours.
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In particular they theorize that "Baal worship" (the common ritual practices of the Canaanite civilization the Israelites conquered) focused on the ritual sacrifice of pigs, and therefore calling pigs fundamentally unclean was a way to make their religion anathema
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That's the theory I find most convincing as to the primary driver of it, although obviously there's cultural stuff that ties into it -- tainted pork being a major source of foodborne illness, pigs being associated with eating refuse, etc.
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Actually at that time nobody in the Near East ate pork anywayhttps://longreads.com/2015/10/14/i-would-rather-be-herods-pig-the-history-of-a-taboo/ …
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Acc to the above (well-sourced) longread, the peoples of the Near East eschewed pork before the Hebrew bible prohibited it. "Like most of their neighbors, the Israelites rejected pork. Unlike those neighbors, [they] came to consider [it] a central element of their identity."
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Mary Douglas has in my opinion a good explanation in "On Purity and Danger. An Analysis of Concept of Pollution and Taboo". It is a question of catagories. All prohited animals (pluss insects, birds etc.) are on the outside of certain categories, and hence they are dangerous.
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i just wrote a similar comment.. but i think judiasm got it from some paganism... see my coment for details
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