Talk:Animals in the Bible

message: The 4th snake noted in the article is described as :
"'צֶפַע tsif‘ōnî (Isaiah 59:5), "the hisser"... so deadly that... its hissing alone, even its look, was fatal."
The article goes on to say :
"It was probably a small viper, perhaps a cerastes, possibly the daboia zanthina, according to Cheyne" 
Based on this description I suggest that the animal is most likely the Puff Adder, Bitis arietans which is found in Israel/Palestine as well as the Arabian Peninsula and Sub Saharan Africa.One of the most dangerous snakes in those regions.
 Wikipedia Puff_adder
Quasimodoquasimondi (talk) 18:44, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "Some Young Earth Creationists think it's a dinosaur like the Apatosaurus or the Brachiosaurus, so well known to the ancient Egyptians." Is that a joke? Egyptians weren't like the Flintstones. 81.155.45.200 (talk) 15:25, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Animal problems 

message: The section on cats talks about a reference to cats in Baruch chapter six. It then says 'Moreover, the deuterocanonical Book of Jeremiah mentions the cat.'.
I believe these are both referring to the same passage. The Book of Jeremiah is regular canonical, and the thing considered the *deutero*canonical book of Jeremiah is what we call Baruch (unless I've confused myself over the matter). The printed Apocrypha I have uses 'The Epistle of Jeremiah' as the title of Baruch vi (which is an enjoyably repetitious cat/idol rumination).
(I guess my main point here is, the quoted sentence is redundant, and its 'moreover' is based on the assumption that this one passage is in two different books).
:I agree, have changed it Tigerboy1966  08:32, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Baruch 6 was, I think, printed as a separate book (The Letter/Epistle of Jeremiah) in some old editions. Tigerboy1966  10:05, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baruch/Jeremiah 

message: There are a lot of things on this page that have no citations and are really hard to parse - like the reference to painting animals under the *Ass* paragraph. I'm happy to clean it up (& try to find citations when I have more time) but I'm concerned that this'll make the page into a stub.  The last time anyone discussed this was over a decade ago so I wanted to see if anyone else agreed or had a better idea before I do anything? Blue-Sonnet (talk) 17:15, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research/no citations 

message: Psalm 111:13 can't be, because that psalm has only 10 verses, and the often meant Psalm 112 the same. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:07, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Calf 

message: A totally antisemic/hate statement that Hebrew elders refer to non Jews as dogs. This is totally false and doesn't belong here nor anywhere. 190.215.251.245 (talk) 11:49, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed it as it is contentious and unreferenced, regards Atlantic306 (talk) 22:01, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dog 

message: As I've brought up, this article appears to largely be a verbatim copy of the 1907 Catholic Encyclopedia, obsolete scientific names and outdated, un-PC descriptions of Middle Eastern cultures and all. The Encyclopedia seems to be written with the assumption that the Douay-Rheims is one of the most popular Bible translations, which doesn't seem to be the case anymore.
Some of the animal entries will need to be shifted around, like "Cherogrillus" (hyrax) or "Porphyrion" (swamphen). Also, perhaps a formatting more like List of plants in the Bible (where the entries are just listed along with their Hebrew, Greek and scientific names, and references in the Bible, with minimal natural history info) would be better, don't you think? --Corsican Warrah (talk to me) 15:18, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I support this, and/or the merger discussed above. I would also request adding Judaism to the list of Wikiprojects here, as it is on the plant list Bbreslau (talk) 11:14, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Douay-Rheims centrism & reformatting 

message: Hi, i've merged Animals in the Bible into the introduction of this article. I haven't cut much out so if anyone wants to edit it down, please go ahead, regards Atlantic306 (talk) 19:43, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger