![]() ![]() His book 12 Rules for Life sold in the millions. ![]() The phenomenon of Jordan Peterson, called “the world’s most influential public intellectual” in The New York Times, has been widely discussed. Of course, as the existence of lobsters proves, they also have their limitations. As the biblical prohibitions suggest, such lines have many advantages they are helpful with direction and certainty. It seems ironic therefore that Jordan Peterson began his last book by talking about lobsters, because from the cut of his jib to the roles of his gender he prefers clean lines. Just as mammals that were kosher had split hooves and chewed their cud, thus making them “pure” mammals, fish with fins and scales were pure fish, and the original creation was expressed through them. Crabs and lobsters and such were not exactly fish and not exactly land animals. ![]() WHY DOES THE BIBLE declare in Leviticus that only fish which have fins and scales are kosher (11:9)? In the mid-1960s, anthropologist Mary Douglas proposed the theory that it was about boundaries. ![]()
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