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Author:   David M. Freidenreich
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780520286276

ISBN 10:   0520286278
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   19 December 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface Notes on Style and Abbreviations Part I. Introduction: Imagining Otherness 1. Good Fences Make Good Neighbors 2. A People Made Holy to the LORD : Meals, Meat, and the Nature of Israel's Holiness in the Hebrew Bible Part II. Jewish Sources on Foreign Food Restrictions: Marking Otherness 3. They Kept Themselves Apart in the Matter of Food : The Nature and Significance of Hellenistic Jewish Food Practices 4. These Gentile Items Are Prohibited : The Foodstuffs of Foreigners in Early Rabbinic Literature 5. How Nice Is This Bread! : Intersections of Talmudic Scholasticism and Foreign Food Restrictions Part III. Christian Sources on Foreign Food Restrictions: Defining Otherness 6. No Distinction between Jew and Greek : The Roles of Food in Defining the Christ-believing Community 7. Be on Your Guard against Food Offered to Idols : Eidolothuton and Early Christian Identity 8. How Could Their Food Not Be Impure? : Jewish Food and the Definition of Christianity Part IV. Islamic Sources on Foreign Food Restrictions: Relativizing Otherness 9. Eat the Permitted and Good Foods God Has Given You : Relativizing Communities in the Qur?an 10. 'Their Food' Means Their Meat : Sunni Discourse on Non-Muslim Acts of Animal Slaughter 11. Only Monotheists May Be Entrusted with Slaughter : The Targets of Shi?i Foreign Food Restrictions Part V. Comparative Case Studies: Engaging Otherness 12. Jewish Food : The Implications of Medieval Islamic and Christian Debates about the Definition of Judaism 13. Christians Adhere to God's Book, but Muslims Judaize : Islamic and Christian Classifications of One Another 14. Idolaters Who Do Not Engage in Idolatry : Rabbinic Discourse about Muslims, Christians, and Wine Notes Works Cited Index

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"""A very fine study... Freidenreich's book ... is an important contribution that will prove valuable... A fascinating and useful examination."" -- Irven M. Resnick H-Net Reviews ""His insights into how food helps define our identities is fascinating ... It's impossible to do justice to Freidenreich's explanations."" -- Rabbi Rachel Esserman The Reporter Group ""[Freidenreich] coveys a meaningful message to all communitites that through dietary laws and restrictions we imagine ourselves and foreigners as others."" -- Mehnaz M. Afridi Journal of American Academy of Religion"

A very fine study... Freidenreich's book ... is an important contribution that will prove valuable... A fascinating and useful examination. -- Irven M. Resnick H-Net Reviews 20120509 His insights into how food helps define our identities is fascinating ... It's impossible to do justice to Freidenreich's explanations. -- Rabbi Rachel Esserman The Reporter Group 20121223 [Freidenreich] coveys a meaningful message to all communitites that through dietary laws and restrictions we imagine ourselves and foreigners as others. -- Mehnaz M. Afridi Journal of American Academy of Religion 20130701

A very fine study... Freidenreich's book ... is an important contribution that will prove valuable... A fascinating and useful examination. -- Irven M. Resnick H-Net Reviews His insights into how food helps define our identities is fascinating ... It's impossible to do justice to Freidenreich's explanations. -- Rabbi Rachel Esserman The Reporter Group [Freidenreich] coveys a meaningful message to all communitites that through dietary laws and restrictions we imagine ourselves and foreigners as others. -- Mehnaz M. Afridi Journal of American Academy of Religion

Author Information

David M. Freidenreich is the Pulver Family Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Colby College and Director of its Jewish Studies program.

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