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.

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Born 1979; 2008 PhD Anthropology of the Ancient World, University of Siena; 2013-19 Senior Researcher and Teaching Fellow University of Lausanne; 2020-2024 Senior Researcher University of Zurich; currently Assistant Professor in Greek Language and Literature at the University of Siena.

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Preface

1. The Dietary Laws of Lev 11 and Deut 14: Introducing Their Ancient and Scholarly Contexts (Peter Altmann and Anna Angelini)
1. A Methodological View of the History of Scholarship

2. Human-Animal Relationships in Ancient Israel
3. The Hebrew Bible Context of Food and Drink Restrictions
4. Biblical Treatments of Meat Prohibitions
5. Questions for this Volume

6. Widening Horizons

   2. Framing the Questions: Some Theoretical Frameworks for the Biblical Dietary Prohibitions (Peter Altmann)
   1. Anthropological Terminology

7. Psychological Explanations
8. Materialist Explanations
9. Douglas and Other Structuralist Approaches to "Dirt" as Structural Anomaly

10. Synthesis

    3. Traditions and Texts: The "Origins" of the Dietary Prohibitions of Lev 11 and Deut 14 (Peter Altmann)
    1. Composition-Critical Concerns

11. Continuum: From "Sanctuary Ritual" to "Mundane Custom"
12. Mundane Customary Origins?
13. Sanctuary Ritual Origins?
14. The Influence of Household or Local Religion?
15. Ritual Practice and Ritual Text

16. Conclusions and a Possible Reconstruction

    4. A Deeper Look at Deut 14:4-20 in the Context of Deuteronomy (Peter Altmann)
    1. The Language of Deut 14:1-2, 3, 21 and 4-20

17. Abomination and Impurity in Deut 14 and Elsewhere in Deuteronomy
18. Mourning Rituals in 14:1-2 and their Link to vv. 3, 4-20
19. "You Are Children, Belonging to Yhwh Your God"
20. A Holy People and Treasured Nation: Deut 7:6; 14:2, 21; 26:18
21. The Relationship between Deut 14 and 26:12-15, 16-19
22. The Stipulations of Deut 14:21 in the context of Deut 14
23. Eating in Deut 14:1-21 in the Context of Deuteronomy 13 and 14:22-27

24. Summary

    5. The Terms eqe and ame' in Lev 11:2-23 and Deut 14:2-20: Overlapping or Separate Categories? (Peter Altmann)
    1. The Usage of and in the Rest of the Hebrew Bible and Their Relevance for Lev 11/Deut 14

25. The Usage of
26. The Terms in Deut 14 and Lev 11

27. Conclusion

    6. Aquatic Creatures in the Dietary Laws: What the Biblical and Ancient Eastern Contexts Contribute to Understanding Their Categorization (Peter Altmann)
    1. Water Creatures from Iconography and Texts of Surrounding Regions

28. Water Creatures in Levantine Zooarchaeology and Evidence of Consumption in Biblical Texts
29. Sea Creatures in the Bible
30. Discussion of the Texts of Lev 11:9-12 and Deut 14:9-10
31. Reasons for the Prohibition?

32. Conclusions

    7. A Table for Fortune: Abominable Food and Forbidden Cults in Isaiah 65-66 (Anna Angelini)
    1. Introduction: Dietary Laws outside the Pentateuch and Isa 65-66

33. The References to Food in the Structure of Isa 65-66
34. Abominable Cults between Imagery and Practice
35. The Pig: A Marker for Impurity
36. The Greek Text: Sacrificing to Demons

37. Summary and Conclusions

    8. Dietary Laws in the Second Temple Period: The Evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls (Anna Angelini)
    1. Introduction: Food in Dead Sea Scrolls and Biblical Law

38. Methodological Remarks
39. Main Tendencies in the Dead Sea Scroll Materials Related to Food Laws
40. Animals and the Purity of the Temple

41. Summary and Conclusions: Food Laws between Discourse and Practice

    9. Looking from the Outside: The Greco-Roman Discourse on the Jewish Food Prohibitions in the First and Second Centuries CE (Anna Angelini)
    1. Introduction: The Origins of the Greek and Roman Traditions about Food Prohibitions

42. The Greek and Latin Witnesses on Jewish Food Prohibitions in the First Century CE
43. The Polemic Use of Jewish Dietary Prohibitions in Juvenal and Tacitus
44. Plutarch and The Philosophical Tradition

45. Conclusions

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

    10. "Thinking" and "Performing" Dietary Prohibitions: Why Should One Keep Them? One Meaning or Many? (Peter Altmann)
    1. Introduction

46. (Envisioned) Practice and Significance and the Myth of the Singular Explanation
47. Knowing How and When vs. Knowing Why