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Exploring the legacy of the rationalist Rishonim (medieval Torah scholars), and various other notes, by Rabbi Dr. Natan Slifkin, director of The Biblical Museum of Natural History in Beit Shemesh. The views expressed here are those of the author, not the institution.
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Behold the Flying Behemoth!
Have you ever seen a hippopotamus soar through the air? The Biblical Behemoth returns to its historic homeland of the Land of Israel, as our new exhibit was loaded yesterdaby crane into the new Biblical Museum of Natural History building. (If you would like to dedicate the Behemoth exhibit, please be in touch!)
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Oh, there you are! For a while I thought you had gone the way of the woolly mammoth.
ReplyDeleteHow did they get the elephant in? Same way?
ReplyDeleteGreat to get a glimpse of the new building. When are you hoping to be ready for visitors?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v2exWrsGOc
ReplyDeleteI’d say that if the good zoology doctor had been planning to disappear for a while he would have left us with a last post about broke-backed cows (egla arufa) not about wooly mammoths!
ReplyDeletefrom my head to my bottomus
ReplyDeleteTake a look at: https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/black-bones-set-0010546
ReplyDeleteThe ancient Egyptians did in fact find fossils and revered them. They found Giant hippo fossils and giant snake / sea creatures.
This is a scientific backing for your contention that the behemoth is a hippo.
Similarly, this would explain the Leviathan.