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'신앙과 음식: 이슬람 음식법에 관한 연구' 논문을 보면 '유대인들이 돼지고기를 금기시 한 것은 위생적 이유와 선모병충에 걸릴 위험 등과 종교적, 상징적, 생태학적 다양한 요인들이 얽혀져 있다' 는 프레데릭 J. 시문스를 주석에 인용하고 있음.
작가가 이전에 '아, 돼지에는 기생충이 많아서 먹으면 몸에 나쁘니까 종교적인 교리로 막아세웠다? 그럼 얘네는 대체 왜 갑자기 돼지고기 먹겠다고 선언함? 기독교도들은 유럽인이니까?' 라고 한 것과는 배치되는 설명임. 논문을 인용하려면 그게 자신의 주장과 배치되는 논문인지 아닌지는 구분해야 하지 않을까?'

라는 반박이 들어온 것에 대해서,

참고문헌 중 Price, M. D. (2021). Evolution of a Taboo: Pigs and People in the Ancient Near East. Oxford University Press.

의 원문(99-101p) 중 일부로 대답을 갈음함.

"The problem is that there is no evidence in the Bible or, for that matter, the Quran that the food laws were health measures. And as pork was not widely eaten in the Levant in the Bronze and Iron Ages, pigs were almost certainly a very minor vector of disease for the ancient Israelites—although diseases carried by swine probably affected Egyptians with some frequency. More importantly, if pork was so harmful, why did the civilizations of premodern pork-loving peoples thrive around the world, from Polynesia to New Guinea to China to Europe? And why, if ancient Israelite priests had somehow cracked the epidemiological code for trichinosis, would they keep such a tight lid on their discovery, opting to shroud a perfectly logical reason for not eating something (“Thou shall not eat the pig, for it will give you diarrhea”) in a religious commandment justified on the grounds that the pig has a cloven hoof but does not chew its cud (Leviticus 11:7)?"

"In the final analysis, the health-related explanations attempt to force-fit the pig taboo into a functionalist framework rather than pursue a scientific interpretation of the available historical information. A  number of anthropologists have made this point already. But despite their work, health-related theories remain popular, probably because they offer a just so story that rationalizes the irrational, grounding taboos in everyday experience—as opposed to cosmological and social life."
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