Bible Review

As in biblical Hebrew, gdy is used in the Ugaritic corpus to mean “kid.”

t\bh usually means “to slaughter” also in biblical Hebrew.

The Ugaritic t (th) is equivalent to the Hebrew s (sh), and the Ugaritic feminine ending -t is equivalent to the Hebrew ending -h.

There is, of course, much more to keeping kosher than this, including not eating prohibited foods such as pig and shellfish, eating meat only from ritually slaughtered animals, etc.

Babylonian Talmud, Hullin, 113a–116a. Although the Bible text prohibits only boiling a kid in its mother’s milk, the rabbis built what is called a “fence around the law,” interpreting the prohibition broadly; this “fence” would keep milk and meat as separate as possible in order to insure that the underlying, core commandment would never accidentally be violated.

Exodus 23:19 (in the Book of the Covenant); Exodus 34:26 (in the renewed covenant); and Deuteronomy 14:21.

This is a device known as gazera shava, which is an “analogy of expressions; that is, an analogy based on identical or similar words occurring in two different passages of Scripture.” (M. Mielzinger, Introduction to the Talmud [New York: Bloch, 1968], p. 143). According to exegetical practice, if one of the passages in which the word occurs is obscure, its meaning is to be ascertained from the other passage.

For our purposes it does not matter whether the tearing of the curtain is a sign of God’s judgment on the Temple or whether it is a sign that access to God is now open and visible as a result of the cross.