Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Bill Ross" <BillRoss AT norisksoftware.com>]

Sound like good advice for *any* restaurant:

"Don't order the Hyena Bat!"

When I was in South Africa with a friend of mine, he really wanted to
take home an ostrich egg shell as a souvenir for his wife. We went into
a gift store and the store was full of eggs painted with exotic scenes
of the local wildlife: elephants, tigers etc. I told the clerk, in my
most ignorant sounding voice, "Wow, I thought they just came out white,
like chicken eggs!" She politely informed me that they did, but that
they were then painted by people. "Ooohh" I said.

Well, when we were unpacking, when we got home, his egg shell had got
smashed into a million little pieces. It was probably pretty tacky of
me, but I suggested that he tell her it was an African puzzle!

Bill Ross
BillRoss AT norisksoftware.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Stabnow [mailto:dstabno AT lifeway.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 4:20 PM
To: Biblical Hebrew
Subject: Re: ostrich?



It's the hyena bat, a large, ugly relative of the fox bat.

Seriously, it occurs 8 times: Lev 11:16; Deut 14:15; Isa 13:21; 34:13;
43:20; Jer 50:39; Mic 1:8; Job 30:29.  Most of the current lexicons I
looked at say it could be some kind of owl, an "eagle-owl."  It lives in
ruins (Jer 50:39) and makes a mournful sound (Mic 1:8).

Dave Stabnow
david.stabnow AT lifeway.com

    Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do,
do everything for God's glory.  (1 Cor 10:31, HCSB)





My son has started reading the bible
(miracle of miracles) and told me that
ostriches were not kosher. Sure enough
according to the English translation of Lev. 11:16
they are not. But I was served ostrich in Israel and
was told it was kosher. So, was I Iied to in Israel
(that restaurant also served escargot and other
strange things)? or had the rabbis decided that
the animal which we translate as "ostrich" is not the
ostrich afterall? It is bat haya(anah in Hebrew. According
to the BDB, this is the only occurrence.
Liz Fried



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