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Title:To Eat or Not to Eat
Studies on the Biblical Dietary Prohibitions
Person: Altmann, Peter
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Angelini, Anna
Main Author: Altmann, Peter (Author)
Other Authors: Angelini, Anna
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tübingen Mohr Siebeck 2024
Edition:1. Aufl.
Series:Archaeology and Bible 9
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1628/978-3-16-163658-5
Summary:Essen oder nicht essen. Studien zu den biblischen Speisegeboten.
Anna Angelini und Peter Altmann befassen sich mit zentralen Fragen zu den biblischen Speisegeboten und deren Bedeutung in Form von Praktiken einerseits und Texten andererseits, und zwar aus Sicht der Philologie, Zooarchäologie und Ikonographie sowie mit einem vergleichenden Blick in den Alten Orient und die griechisch-römische Welt.
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.
Anna Angelini und Peter Altmann befassen sich mit zentralen Fragen zu den biblischen Speisegeboten und ihrer Bedeutung als Praktiken und Texte durch philologische, zooarchäologische, ikonografische und vergleichende altorientalische und griechisch-römische Perspektiven. Dabei untersuchen sie theoretische Rahmen, die in der modernen Auslegung verwendet werden, mögliche Ursprünge in Bezug auf die altisraelitische Religion und Gesellschaft, sowie die Verortung in Bezug auf die priesterliche Terminologie und die deuteronomische Tradition. Sie weiten den Untersuchungsbogen auf die Rezeption der Verbote des Zweiten Tempels sowohl in den Schriftrollen vom Toten Meer als auch in den griechisch-römischen Diskursen der ersten Jahrhunderte nach Christus aus. Mit ihren grundlegenden Studien liefern sie eine Annäherung an die Speisegebote, die den Weg für die Rekonstruktion ihres Entwicklungsweges in ihre heutigen Kontexte öffnet.
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.Survey of contentsPreface 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 Scholarship2. Human-Animal Relationships in Ancient Israel3. The Hebrew Bible Context of Food and Drink Restrictions4. Biblical Treatments of Meat Prohibitions5. Questions for this Volume6. Widening Horizons 2. Framing the Questions: Some Theoretical Frameworks for the Biblical Dietary Prohibitions (Peter Altmann)1. Anthropological Terminology2. Psychological Explanations3. Materialist Explanations4. Douglas and Other Structuralist Approaches to »Dirt« as Structural Anomaly5. Synthesis 3. Traditions and Texts: The »Origins« of the Dietary Prohibitions of Lev 11 and Deut 14 (Peter Altmann)1. Composition-Critical Concerns2. Continuum: From »Sanctuary Ritual« to »Mundane Custom«3. Mundane Customary Origins?4. Sanctuary Ritual Origins?5. The Influence of Household or Local Religion?6. Ritual Practice and Ritual Text7. 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 4-202. Abomination and Impurity in Deut 14 and Elsewhere in Deuteronomy3. Mourning Rituals in 14:1-2 and their Link to vv. 3, 4-204. »You Are Children, Belonging to Yhwh Your God«5. A Holy People and Treasured Nation: Deut 7:6; 14:2, 21; 26:186. The Relationship between Deut 14 and 26:12-15, 16-197. The Stipulations of Deut 14:21 in the context of Deut 148. Eating in Deut 14:1-21 in the Context of Deuteronomy 13 and 14:22-279. Summary 5. The Terms שׁקץ Šeqeṣ and טמא Ṭame in Lev 11:2-23 and Deut 14:2-20: Overlapping or Separate Categories? (Peter Altmann)1. The Usage of שׁקץ and טמא in the Rest of the Hebrew Bible and Their Relevance for Lev 11/Deut 142. The Usage of טמא3. The Terms in Deut 14 and Lev 114. 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 Regions2. Water Creatures in Levantine Zooarchaeology and Evidence of Consumption in Biblical Texts3. Sea Creatures in the Bible4. Discussion of the Texts of Lev 11:9-12 and Deut 14:9-105. Reasons for the Prohibition?6. 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 65-662. The References to Food in the Structure of Isa 65-663. Abominable Cults between Imagery and Practice4. The Pig: A Marker for Impurity5. The Greek Text: Sacrificing to Demons6. 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 Law2. Methodological Remarks3. Main Tendencies in the Dead Sea Scroll Materials Related to Food Laws4. Animals and the Purity of the Temple5. 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 Prohibitions2. The Greek and Latin Witnesses on Jewish Food Prohibitions in the First Century CE3. The Polemic Use of Jewish Dietary Prohibitions in Juvenal and Tacitus4. Plutarch and The Philosophical Tradition5. ConclusionsAppendix: Plutarchs 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. Introduction2. (Envisioned) Practice and Significance and the Myth of the Singular Explanation3. Knowing How and When vs. Knowing Why
Anna Angelini und Peter Altmann befassen sich mit zentralen Fragen zu den biblischen Speisegeboten und ihrer Bedeutung als Praktiken und Texte durch philologische, zooarchäologische, ikonografische und vergleichende altorientalische und griechisch-römische Perspektiven. Dabei untersuchen sie theoretische Rahmen, die in der modernen Auslegung verwendet werden, mögliche Ursprünge in Bezug auf die altisraelitische Religion und Gesellschaft, sowie die Verortung in Bezug auf die priesterliche Terminologie und die deuteronomische Tradition. Sie weiten den Untersuchungsbogen auf die Rezeption der Verbote des Zweiten Tempels sowohl in den Schriftrollen vom Toten Meer als auch in den griechisch-römischen Diskursen der ersten Jahrhunderte nach Christus aus. Mit ihren grundlegenden Studien liefern sie eine Annäherung an die Speisegebote, die den Weg für die Rekonstruktion ihres Entwicklungsweges in ihre heutigen Kontexte öffnet.Inhalts+uuml;bersichtPreface 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 Scholarship2. Human-Animal Relationships in Ancient Israel3. The Hebrew Bible Context of Food and Drink Restrictions4. Biblical Treatments of Meat Prohibitions5. Questions for this Volume6. Widening Horizons 2. Framing the Questions: Some Theoretical Frameworks for the Biblical Dietary Prohibitions (Peter Altmann)1. Anthropological Terminology2. Psychological Explanations3. Materialist Explanations4. Douglas and Other Structuralist Approaches to »Dirt« as Structural Anomaly5. Synthesis 3. Traditions and Texts: The »Origins« of the Dietary Prohibitions of Lev 11 and Deut 14 (Peter Altmann)1. Composition-Critical Concerns2. Continuum: From »Sanctuary Ritual« to »Mundane Custom«3. Mundane Customary Origins?4. Sanctuary Ritual Origins?5. The Influence of Household or Local Religion?6. Ritual Practice and Ritual Text7. 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 4-202. Abomination and Impurity in Deut 14 and Elsewhere in Deuteronomy3. Mourning Rituals in 14:1-2 and their Link to vv. 3, 4-204. »You Are Children, Belonging to Yhwh Your God«5. A Holy People and Treasured Nation: Deut 7:6; 14:2, 21; 26:186. The Relationship between Deut 14 and 26:12-15, 16-197. The Stipulations of Deut 14:21 in the context of Deut 148. Eating in Deut 14:1-21 in the Context of Deuteronomy 13 and 14:22-279. Summary 5. The Terms שׁקץ Šeqeṣ and טמא Ṭame in Lev 11:2-23 and Deut 14:2-20: Overlapping or Separate Categories? (Peter Altmann)1. The Usage of שׁקץ and טמא in the Rest of the Hebrew Bible and Their Relevance for Lev 11/Deut 142. The Usage of טמא3. The Terms in Deut 14 and Lev 114. 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 Regions2. Water Creatures in Levantine Zooarchaeology and Evidence of Consumption in Biblical Texts3. Sea Creatures in the Bible4. Discussion of the Texts of Lev 11:9-12 and Deut 14:9-105. Reasons for the Prohibition?6. 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 65-662. The References to Food in the Structure of Isa 65-663. Abominable Cults between Imagery and Practice4. The Pig: A Marker for Impurity5. The Greek Text: Sacrificing to Demons6. 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 Law2. Methodological Remarks3. Main Tendencies in the Dead Sea Scroll Materials Related to Food Laws4. Animals and the Purity of the Temple5. 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 Prohibitions2. The Greek and Latin Witnesses on Jewish Food Prohibitions in the First Century CE3. The Polemic Use of Jewish Dietary Prohibitions in Juvenal and Tacitus4. Plutarch and The Philosophical Tradition5. ConclusionsAppendix: Plutarchs 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. Introduction2. (Envisioned) Practice and Significance and the Myth of the Singular Explanation3. Knowing How and When vs. Knowing Why
Item Description:PublicationDate: 20240820
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (X, 295 Seiten)
ISBN:9783161636585