The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5777728
AutoresJonathan D Rosenblum (0000-0003-1539-4754, autor de correspondencia), Jordan D Rosenblum
Año2016
Fecha de publicación2016-01-01
Open AccessSí
TipoBOOK
RevistaJewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781316106655
OpenAlexW2593410843
Open LibraryOL34741750M
ISBN9781316106655
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas14

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

Greeks · Revelation · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Culinary Culture and Tourism · dietary laws · Food · History · History and criticism · Jews · Judentum · Kaschrut · Rabbinical literature · Rabbinical literature, history and criticism · Speisegebot