Religious laws

Definition

A religious law enacts a certain number of practices or principles of behavior in the name of a religion or teaching of a prophet.

Talmudic law

The Talmud , of a Hebrew word which means study , is the written form of the oral Law received according to the tradition by Moïse at the same time as the written Law of the Pentateuque, then verbally taught of Master with disciple in an uninterrupted chain (Pirke Avot 1:1):

Canon law

Koranic law

See Chariah.

Regulations of a food nature

Prohibition of the pig

In old Egypt

At the origin of this prohibition, a religious reason which prohibits to the priests ancient Egypt to eat the pig. Indeed, the Egyptian pig (nearer to wild boar) was the crowned animal of the god Seth. The pig was one of the adversaries of Horus and Osiris.

In the Hebraic religion

In the Islamic religion

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