De uil in de Bijbel is niet wijs — hij is eenzaam

The owl in Scripture is not wise. It is lonely, and it lives where people used to. The wise owl is Greek — the bird of Athena, on the coins of her city. The Bible’s owl is something else entirely, and the difference changes several passages. The unclean list The owl’s first appearance is administrative. Leviticus 11:16-17 names birds not to be eaten, and several owls are among them — the horned owl, the screech owl, the little owl, the…