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Food taboos and biblical prohibitions : reassessing archaeological and literary perspectives / edited by Peter Altmann, Anna Angelini, and Abra Spiciarich.

Contributor(s): Altmann, Peter [editor.] | Angelini, Anna [editor.] | Spiciarich, Abra [editor.] | Larger Context of the Biblical Food Prohibitions: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches (Conference) (2017 : Lausanne, Switzerland)
Material type: TextTextSeries: Archaeology and Bible: 2.Publisher: Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, [2020]Description: vi, 158 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 3161593553; 9783161593550Subject(s): Food -- Biblical teaching -- Congresses | Food -- Religious aspects -- CongressesDDC classification: 220.86413 LOC classification: BS680.F6 | F66 2020Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction: Setting the table / Peter Altmann, Anna Angelini, and Abra Spiciarich -- Purity, taboo and food in antiquity: theoretical and methodological issues / Peter Altmann and Anna Angelini -- Animals in the ancient Mesopotamian diet. Prohibitions and regulations related to meat in the first millennium BCE / Stefania Ermidoro -- "Food prohibitions" in Pharaonic Egypt. Discourses and practices / Youri Volokhine -- Identifying the biblical food prohibitions using zooarchaeological methods / Abra Spiciarch -- Prohibited pigs and prescribed priestly portions. Zooarchaeological remains from Tel Dan and questions concerning ethnicity and priestly traditions in the Hebrew Bible / Jonathan S. Greer -- Distinguishing Judah and Philistia. A zooarchaeological view from Ramat Rahel and Ashkelon / Deirdre N. Fulton -- Continuity, innovation and transformation in cooking habits. The Central and Southern Shephelah betweeen the late fourth and the first centuries BCE.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction: Setting the table / Peter Altmann, Anna Angelini, and Abra Spiciarich -- Purity, taboo and food in antiquity: theoretical and methodological issues / Peter Altmann and Anna Angelini -- Animals in the ancient Mesopotamian diet. Prohibitions and regulations related to meat in the first millennium BCE / Stefania Ermidoro -- "Food prohibitions" in Pharaonic Egypt. Discourses and practices / Youri Volokhine -- Identifying the biblical food prohibitions using zooarchaeological methods / Abra Spiciarch -- Prohibited pigs and prescribed priestly portions. Zooarchaeological remains from Tel Dan and questions concerning ethnicity and priestly traditions in the Hebrew Bible / Jonathan S. Greer -- Distinguishing Judah and Philistia. A zooarchaeological view from Ramat Rahel and Ashkelon / Deirdre N. Fulton -- Continuity, innovation and transformation in cooking habits. The Central and Southern Shephelah betweeen the late fourth and the first centuries BCE.

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