Whatever the actual origin of these various dietary taboos, they are here embedded in a larger ideological framework concerning the need for the Israelites to separate themselves and to be holy like their god. The dietary laws are connected then with this theme of imitatio dei, of imitation of God.

不管这些饮食禁忌的实际起源是什么，它们都被嵌入一个庞大的思想框架,这个框架考虑到以色列人对区别他们自身,和他们神圣的神的需要，饮食教规,和对上帝的模仿有关系。

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