The Blood Taboo
Blood should not be ingested because it contains life. Whoever does so is guilty of murder.
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Endnotes
See Ancient Near Eastern Texts, ed. James B. Pritchard (Princeton: Princeton Univ., 1969), pp. 75, 77.
C.H. Brichto, “On Slaughter and Sacrifice, Blood and Atonement,” Hebrew Union College Annual 47 (1976), pp. 19–56.
See M. Bockmuehl, “The Noahide Commandment and New Testament Ethics,” Revue Biblique 102 (1995), pp. 72–101, esp. 44–95; J. Taylor, Les Actes des Deux Apôtres (Paris: Gabalda, 1994), vol. 5, pp. 209–214; C.K. Barrett, “The Apostolic Decree of Acts 15:20, ” Australian Biblical Review 35 (1987), pp. 50–59; E. Haenchen, The Acts of the Apostles (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1971).