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Although the word kulit refers specifically to the thighbone, in fact the same rule would apply to any marrow bone, since the marrow is deemed edible, which changes our view of the bone from “bone” to “meat” about the laws of ritual defilement. Furthermore, while the Mishna groups the cases of a human corpse and that of a consecrated animal together, their rules are not the same. In the case of a human bone, the bone itself becomes tameh on a biblical level based on the passage in Sefer Bamidbar (19:16). This stands in contrast to the case of a consecrated animal that only becomes tameh on a rabbinic level (see Pesaḥim daf 120b), and whose bones only impart impurity if they contain marrow.
We explore how Noam describes Qumran law as a kind of historical waystation between Bible and Mishnah.