Neville retells what his old friend and teacher Abdullah told him: raised in strict Judaism and a vegetarian for forty years who had never tasted pork, Abdullah heard a voice ask how he could expect others to take what he gave if he would not eat what they gave, and he broke his fast at a party where, as guest of honour, a whole roasted pig was brought to the table.
Date (happened)
before 1969
bound · possible
Source
qualifying source passages 531395; telling lecture nids 1142
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [531395] belong to telling lecture nids [1142]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1969 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1969 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 1969
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [528249] belong to telling lecture nids [1033]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1969 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1969 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 27 January 1969
bound
Source
telling lecture nid 1142, certain delivery 1969-01-27
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1969 to before 1969-01-27.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1142 (certain delivery 1969-01-27); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1969`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1969-01-27 on nid 1142 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim, and MIN was taken across this event's 2 certain told dates. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
before 9 January 1964
bound · probable
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 023)
Reasoning
Lecture 1033 (1964-01-09, certain) tells Abdullah's forty years without pork and 'then came the same thing to him', but the roast-pig meal itself is not in passage 528249.
Told
27 January 1969
stated
Source
The Mystery of Inspiration (nid 1142), telling 1142-6, told 1969-01-27
30 January 1969
stated · refuted
Sources
Source
- The One Greater Than John ¶13 (My friend Abdullah who taught me this story, he was in it for forty years. He hadn’t touched anything that was meat, especially pork. He was born and raised in the Jewish faith, and for forty years he touched nothing that was meat.)
- The Mystery of Inspiration ¶40 (My old friend, Abdullah, who was born and raised in the Jewish faith, said, “Not only was I raised in the most orthodox environment in Judaism, but for forty years I was a strict vegetarian. I had never tasted pork in my life, no part of the animal.)