Why Is Pork Forbidden?

Go to and take your free 30-second quiz! Thank you #noom for sponsoring today’s video! Join our Patreon community!: One-time donations here!: Check out my favorite religious studies books by following this affiliate link to my Amazon page: Credits: Executive Producers: Daniel Cuevas, Maritza Co-Writers: Bailey Benson and Andrew Henry Editor: Mark Henry Bibliography Hesse, B. and Wapnish, P. 1997. Can Pig Remains Be Used for Ethnic Diagnosis in the Ancient Near East? In The Archaeology of Israel: Constructing the Past, Interpreting the Present, edited by N.A. Silberman and D.B. Small, pp. 238-270. Hesse, B. and Wapnish, P. Use and Abuse in the Ancient Levant: Ethnoreligious Boundary-Building and Swine. In Ancestors for the Pigs, edited by S. Nelson, pp. 123-135. Pr