TY - BOOK ID - 7123104 TI - Food and identity in early rabbinic Judaism PY - 2010 SN - 9780521195980 0521195985 9780511730375 9781107666436 9780511729850 0511729855 0511730373 9780511727955 051172795X 1107205107 1282630466 9786612630460 0511728905 0511726562 0511725140 1107666430 9781107205109 9781282630468 6612630469 9780511728907 9780511726569 9780511725142 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Jews KW - Rabbinical literature KW - Dietary laws. KW - Food KW - History. KW - Identity. KW - History and criticism. KW - Identity, Jewish KW - Jewish identity KW - Jewishness KW - Jewish law KW - Jewish nationalism KW - Hebrews KW - Israelites KW - Jewish people KW - Jewry KW - Judaic people KW - Judaists KW - Ethnology KW - Religious adherents KW - Semites KW - Judaism KW - Dietary laws, Jewish KW - Kashruth, Laws of KW - Diet KW - Nutrition KW - Jewish cooking KW - Kosher food KW - Ethnic identity KW - Race identity KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Religious aspects KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Religion KW - Jews - Dietary laws. KW - Jews - Food - History. KW - Jews - Identity. KW - Rabbinical literature - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7123104 AB - Food often defines societies and even civilizations. Through particular commensality restrictions, groups form distinct identities: those with whom 'we' eat ('us') and those with whom 'we' cannot eat ('them'). This identity is enacted daily, turning the biological need to eat into a culturally significant activity. In this book, Jordan D. Rosenblum explores how food regulations and practices helped to construct the identity of early rabbinic Judaism. Bringing together the scholarship of rabbinics with that of food studies, this volume first examines the historical reality of food production and consumption in Roman-era Palestine. It then explores how early rabbinic food regulations created a distinct Jewish, male, and rabbinic identity. Rosenblum's work demonstrates how rabbinic food practices constructed an edible identity. ER -