Jordan D. Rosenblum (Madison University of Wisconsin)

The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World

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Produktbeschreibung

Jordan D. Rosenblum explores how cultures critique and defend their religious food practices, focussing on how ancient Jews defended the kosher laws and how ancient Greeks, Romans, and early Christians critiqued these practices. Rooted in ancient biblical interpretation, this study explores the content, context, and rhetoric of ancient debates about food ethics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9781107090347
• ISBN-10: 1107090342
• Artikelnr.: 47353891

Autorenporträt

Jordan D. Rosenblum is Associate Professor and Belzer Professor of Classical Judaism at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research focuses on the literature, culture, and history of the Rabbinic movement. He is the author of Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism (Cambridge, 2010) and the co-editor of Religious Competition in the Third Century CE: Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman World (2014). He is also the editor for Ancient Judaism at Currents in Biblical Research.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Reasonable creature
1. Hebrew Bible
2. Greek and Roman sources
3. The Hellenistic period: Jewish sources
4. The Hellenistic period: the New Testament
5. The Tannaitic period: Jewish sources
6. The Rabbinic/Patristic period: Amoraic sources
7. The Rabbinic/Patristic period: Christian sources
Conclusion. Food ethic
Bibliography
Index of pre-modern sources
Selected index of modern scholars
Selected general index.