"Now if a man loses the hair of his head, he is bald; he is clean.Okay, I'll admit, I chose this specifically for humor. You're discussing leprosy, a set of serious skin infections (at the time, our definition's strayed a bit), and you're discussing this? A guy goes bald, and you have to check whether that makes him unclean or not? If it did, then we're got a lot of unclean people in this world, and I'm sure the Jews had many in their camp at the time who breathed a sigh of relief.
I understand the significance of cleanliness in a camp like this, but the fact that you have to check about a normal biological function seems a bit strange to me. Makes me wonder if there was some ostracism or denigration of bald men at the time.
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