Jonathan D Rosenblum
Biographic Data
| ID | 1067788 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan D Rosenblum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan D |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosenblum |
| SIGNATURE | ROSENBLUM J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1539-4754 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction to “On Whose Terms?”
This special issue, “On Whose Terms ...?” addresses some challenges of working within standard comparative methodologies from the joint perspectives of Daoist Studies and the Study of Judaism. We offer our explorations of various theories, methodologies, case studies, and the history of the field of Religious Studies, with special focus on Daoist Studies and the Study of Judaism. Collectively, we aim to provide models for circumventing the limits…
Global Jewish Foodways
Edited volumes are far too often a collection of essays of uneven quality, written by scholars with varying degrees of skill, and stitched together with more or less care by sometimes diligent, and
“Blessings of the Breasts”
Labor Needs a Bold Vision to Inspire Workers in the New Economy
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 practices. As the kosher laws are first encountered in the Hebrew Bible, this study is rooted in ancient biblical interpretation. It explores how commentato…
Changing the Subject
This essay explores how changing the subject can function as a valid legal process in classical rabbinic literature. In order to do so, it first establishes standard rabbinic legal procedure, in which the legal reasoning for arguments is debated and either supported or refuted. Next, it discusses cases that do not fit this pattern: namely, those in which a rabbi, faced with a contradictory or complex argument, changes the subject rather than his …
Dietary restrictions, Jewish and Christian
What, how, and with whom one eats make strong statements about one's identity. This observation did not escape the attention of ancient Jews, Christians, and others.
Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism
Why Do You Refuse to Eat Pork
Both Jewish and non-Jewish (particularly Roman) sources from antiquity attest to a culinary 'fact': Jews do not eat pork. The meaning of this foodway, however, depends upon one's perspective. According to some rabbinic sources, because Romans eat pig they are, as such, embodied as pigs. On the other hand, according to some Roman sources, by refusing to eat pig, Jews are never able to ingest Roman-ness and, thus, can never truly become Roman. Begi…
From Their Bread to Their Bed
In the tannaitic corpus, a novel innovation appears: sharing bread is understood to lead to sharing a bed. As such, the Tannaim problematise and marginalise commensal interactions between Jews and non-Jews. In several instances, commensality with non-Jews is equated with idolatry, the binary opposite of Jewishness in rabbinic literature. While this connection is absent from Hebrew Bible texts and, at best, inchoate in a handful of Second Temple p…
Kosher Olive Oil in Antiquity Reconsidered
Josephus attests several times to a Jewish aversion to the use of Gentile olive oil. In m. 'Abod. Zar. 2:6, this practice is first advocated and then immediately reversed by Rabbi and his court. What is the rationale for this sudden leniency with regard to Gentile olive oil? In a well-known article entitled “Kosher Olive Oil in Antiquity,” Martin Goodman argues that Rabbi's statement is the result of his inability to find a legal basis for the pr…
Copper and Class Struggle
THESE TWO BOOKS examine labour relations in copper mining in the American southwest That is about the only thing they have in common: they are of very different quality and interest; they look at different periods; and their authors draw different conclusions. As his title suggests, Mellinger's Race and Labor in Western Copper looks at ethnicity and workers, while the subtitle of Rosenblum's book indicates his concern with the meaning and signifi…
Copper Crucible
Reflecting on book, one is left to endorse enthusiastically sleeve note copy of another commentator. This is the work of a craftsman who handles multivariate analysis smoothly to produce a well-packaged book. One is also left persuaded that work will be well received by community of political scientists with whom author directly interacts. The book has a certain partisanship in perspective, however, particularly on issues of office holders' famil…
Copper Crucible
Capital and Labor in American Copper, 1845-1990
Part 1 The copper industry and its industrial relations: interactions of the product market and the labour market how about a road map? why another book? a synopsis of the issues joint wage-making after 1946. Part 2 Geography, geology and technology: geographic location geological characteristics of the American deposits a century of technological change. Part 3 Emergence of the copper industry: beginnings of the industry Calumet and Hecla Mining…
Why Do You Refuse to Eat Pork
Both Jewish and non-Jewish (particularly Roman) sources from antiquity attest to a culinary 'fact': Jews do not eat pork. The meaning of this foodway, however, depends upon one's perspective. According to some rabbinic sources, because Romans eat pig they are, as such, embodied as pigs. On the other hand, according to some Roman sources, by refusing to eat pig, Jews are never able to ingest Roman-ness and, thus, can never truly become Roman. Begi…
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 practices. As the kosher laws are first encountered in the Hebrew Bible, this study is rooted in ancient biblical interpretation. It explores how commentato…
From Their Bread to Their Bed
In the tannaitic corpus, a novel innovation appears: sharing bread is understood to lead to sharing a bed. As such, the Tannaim problematise and marginalise commensal interactions between Jews and non-Jews. In several instances, commensality with non-Jews is equated with idolatry, the binary opposite of Jewishness in rabbinic literature. While this connection is absent from Hebrew Bible texts and, at best, inchoate in a handful of Second Temple p…
Capital and Labor in American Copper, 1845-1990
Part 1 The copper industry and its industrial relations: interactions of the product market and the labour market how about a road map? why another book? a synopsis of the issues joint wage-making after 1946. Part 2 Geography, geology and technology: geographic location geological characteristics of the American deposits a century of technological change. Part 3 Emergence of the copper industry: beginnings of the industry Calumet and Hecla Mining…
Copper Crucible
Copper Crucible
Reflecting on book, one is left to endorse enthusiastically sleeve note copy of another commentator. This is the work of a craftsman who handles multivariate analysis smoothly to produce a well-packaged book. One is also left persuaded that work will be well received by community of political scientists with whom author directly interacts. The book has a certain partisanship in perspective, however, particularly on issues of office holders' famil…
Copper and Class Struggle
THESE TWO BOOKS examine labour relations in copper mining in the American southwest That is about the only thing they have in common: they are of very different quality and interest; they look at different periods; and their authors draw different conclusions. As his title suggests, Mellinger's Race and Labor in Western Copper looks at ethnicity and workers, while the subtitle of Rosenblum's book indicates his concern with the meaning and signifi…
Kosher Olive Oil in Antiquity Reconsidered
Josephus attests several times to a Jewish aversion to the use of Gentile olive oil. In m. 'Abod. Zar. 2:6, this practice is first advocated and then immediately reversed by Rabbi and his court. What is the rationale for this sudden leniency with regard to Gentile olive oil? In a well-known article entitled “Kosher Olive Oil in Antiquity,” Martin Goodman argues that Rabbi's statement is the result of his inability to find a legal basis for the pr…
Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism
Why Do You Refuse to Eat Pork
Both Jewish and non-Jewish (particularly Roman) sources from antiquity attest to a culinary 'fact': Jews do not eat pork. The meaning of this foodway, however, depends upon one's perspective. According to some rabbinic sources, because Romans eat pig they are, as such, embodied as pigs. On the other hand, according to some Roman sources, by refusing to eat pig, Jews are never able to ingest Roman-ness and, thus, can never truly become Roman. Begi…
From Their Bread to Their Bed
In the tannaitic corpus, a novel innovation appears: sharing bread is understood to lead to sharing a bed. As such, the Tannaim problematise and marginalise commensal interactions between Jews and non-Jews. In several instances, commensality with non-Jews is equated with idolatry, the binary opposite of Jewishness in rabbinic literature. While this connection is absent from Hebrew Bible texts and, at best, inchoate in a handful of Second Temple p…
Dietary restrictions, Jewish and Christian
What, how, and with whom one eats make strong statements about one's identity. This observation did not escape the attention of ancient Jews, Christians, and others.
Changing the Subject
This essay explores how changing the subject can function as a valid legal process in classical rabbinic literature. In order to do so, it first establishes standard rabbinic legal procedure, in which the legal reasoning for arguments is debated and either supported or refuted. Next, it discusses cases that do not fit this pattern: namely, those in which a rabbi, faced with a contradictory or complex argument, changes the subject rather than his …
“Blessings of the Breasts”
Labor Needs a Bold Vision to Inspire Workers in the New Economy
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 practices. As the kosher laws are first encountered in the Hebrew Bible, this study is rooted in ancient biblical interpretation. It explores how commentato…
Global Jewish Foodways
Edited volumes are far too often a collection of essays of uneven quality, written by scholars with varying degrees of skill, and stitched together with more or less care by sometimes diligent, and
Introduction to “On Whose Terms?”
This special issue, “On Whose Terms ...?” addresses some challenges of working within standard comparative methodologies from the joint perspectives of Daoist Studies and the Study of Judaism. We offer our explorations of various theories, methodologies, case studies, and the history of the field of Religious Studies, with special focus on Daoist Studies and the Study of Judaism. Collectively, we aim to provide models for circumventing the limits…
Philosophy (8 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (7 works) · Judaism (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Art (4 works)