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The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World (Paperback)
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The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World (Paperback)
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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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