The Jewish dietary laws in the ancient world
In The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World Jordan D. Rosenblum explores how cultures critique and defend their religious food practices. In particular he focuses on how ancient Jews defended the kosher laws, or kashrut, and how ancient Greeks, Romans, and early Christians critiqued these practi...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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New York
Cambridge University Press
2016.
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Further subjects: | B
Jews
Food
History
B Jews ; Dietary laws B Rabbinical literature History and criticism B Rabbinical literature ; History and criticism B Jews ; Food ; History B Jews Dietary laws |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781107090347 |
| Summary: | In The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World Jordan D. Rosenblum explores how cultures critique and defend their religious food practices. In particular he focuses on how ancient Jews defended the kosher laws, or kashrut, and how ancient Greeks, Romans, and early Christians critiqued these practices. As the kosher laws are first encountered in the Hebrew Bible, this study is rooted in ancient biblical interpretation. It explores how commentators in antiquity understood, applied, altered, innovated upon, and contemporized biblical dietary regulations. He shows that these differing interpretations do not exist within a vacuum; rather, they are informed by a variety of motives, including theological, moral, political, social, and financial considerations. In analyzing these ancient conversations about culture and cuisine, he dissects three rhetorical strategies deployed when justifying various interpretations of ancient Jewish dietary regulations: reason, revelation, and allegory. Finally, Rosenblum reflects upon wider, contemporary debates about food ethics. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Apr 2017) |
| ISBN: | 1316106659 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/9781316106655 |