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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 March 2017
      15 December 2016
      ISBN:
      9781316106655
      9781107090347
      9781107462281
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316106655
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.43kg, 204 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.36kg, 208 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Judaism, Classical Studies, Religion
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    Ancient History, Judaism, Classical Studies, Religion
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    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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    'I would not hesitate to recommend [this book] for introductory courses in Jewish studies. It would probably also prove valuable in the education of lay Jewish audiences, whose hunger for knowledge about Jewish food culture often seems insatiable.'

    Joshua Garroway Source: H-Net Reviews

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    • Chapter 3 - The Hellenistic Period: Jewish Sources
      pp 46-76
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