To eat or not to eat : studies on the Biblical dietary prohibitions / Peter Altmann and Anna Angelini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Altmann, Peter, author.

Angelini, Anna, 1979- author.

Series:

Archaeology and Bible ; 9.

Archaeology and Bible ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Dietary laws--Biblical teaching.

Jews.

Food in the Bible.

Food--Biblical teaching.

Food.

Diet--Biblical teaching.

Diet.

Bible. Leviticus, XI--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Deuteronomy, XIV--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 295 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2024.

Summary:

"Anna Angelini and Peter Altmann address pivotal issues on the biblical dietary prohibitions and their significance as practices and texts through philological, zooarchaeological, iconographic, and comparative ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman lenses. They explore theoretical frameworks adopted in modern interpretation, possible origins in relation to ancient Israelite religion and society, and location in relation to Priestly terminology and Deuteronomic tradition. The authors expand the arc of investigation to the Second Temple reception of the prohibitions in both the Dead Sea Scrolls and Greco-Roman discourses from the first centuries CE. With their foundational studies, they provide an approach to the dietary prohibitions, opening the way for reconstructing their path of development into their present-day contexts."-- Publisher's website.

Contents:

The dietary laws of Lev 11 and Deut 14 : introducing their ancient and scholarly contexts / Peter Altmann, Anna Angelini

Framing the questions : some theoretical frameworks for the Biblical dietary prohibitions / Peter Altmann

Traditions and texts : the "origins" of the dietary prohibitions of Lev 11 and Deut 14 / Peter Altmann

A deeper look at Deut 14:4-20 in the context of Deuteronomy / Peter Altmann

The terms שׁקץ Šeqeṣ and טמא Ṭame' in Lev 11:2-23 and Deut 14:2-20 : overlapping or separate categories? / Peter Altmann

Aquatic creatures in the dietary laws : what the Biblical and ancient eastern contexts contribute to understanding their categorization / Peter Altmann

A table for fortune : abominable food and forbidden cults in Isaiah 65-66 / Anna Angelini

Dietary laws in the second temple period : the evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls / Anna Angelini

Looking from the outside : the Greco-Roman discourse on the Jewish food prohibitions in the first and second centuries CE / Anna Angelini

Appendix: Plutarch's Moralia, Table Talk IV, Question 5 (669e-671c)

"Thinking" and "performing" dietary prohibitions : why should one keep them? one meaning or many? / Peter Altmann.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-267) and indexes.

ISBN:

9783161636578

3161636570

OCLC:

1451099773