Peter Altmann, Anna Angelini

To Eat or Not to Eat

Studies on the Biblical Dietary Prohibitions

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Archaeology and Bible
• Verlag: Mohr Siebeck
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 19176
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 155mm
• Gewicht: 469g
• ISBN-13: 9783161636578
• ISBN-10: 3161636570
• Artikelnr.: 71166578

Autorenporträt

Born 1974; 2004 ThM and 2010 PhD in Old Testament, Princeton Theological Seminary; 2016 Habilitation, University of Zurich; 2008-23 Senior Researcher & Teaching Fellow, University of Zurich; currently David Allan Hubbard Associate Professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary.

Inhaltsangabe

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
2. Psychological Explanations
3. Materialist Explanations
4. Douglas and Other Structuralist Approaches to "Dirt" as Structural Anomaly
5. Synthesis

3. Traditions and Texts: The "Origins" of the Dietary Prohibitions of Lev 11 and Deut 14 (Peter Altmann)
1. Composition-Critical Concerns
2. 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 Text
7. 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
2. Abomination and Impurity in Deut 14 and Elsewhere in Deuteronomy
3. Mourning Rituals in 14:1-2 and their Link to vv. 3, 4-20
4. "You Are Children, Belonging to Yhwh Your God"
5. A Holy People and Treasured Nation: Deut 7:6; 14:2, 21; 26:18
6. The Relationship between Deut 14 and 26:12-15, 16-19
7. The Stipulations of Deut 14:21 in the context of Deut 14
8. Eating in Deut 14:1-21 in the Context of Deuteronomy 13 and 14:22-27
9. Summary

5. The Terms Seqes 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
2. The Usage of
3. The Terms in Deut 14 and Lev 11
4. 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
2. Water Creatures in Levantine Zooarchaeology and Evidence of Consumption in Biblical Texts
3. Sea Creatures in the Bible
4. Discussion of the Texts of Lev 11:9-12 and Deut 14:9-10
5. 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 65-66
2. The References to Food in the Structure of Isa 65-66
3. Abominable Cults between Imagery and Practice
4. The Pig: A Marker for Impurity
5. The Greek Text: Sacrificing to Demons
6. 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
2. Methodological Remarks
3. Main Tendencies in the Dead Sea Scroll Materials Related to Food Laws
4. Animals and the Purity of the Temple
5. 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