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Ancient Jewish Food in Its Geographical and Cultural Contexts: What's Cooking in the Talmuds?

Ancient Jewish Food in Its Geographical and Cultural Contexts: What's Cooking in the Talmuds?

Weingarten, Susan

Hardcover

Series: Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East

JudaismAncient History General

ISBN10: 1032009977
ISBN13: 9781032009971
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 25 2025
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.39
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book is the first in-depth study of food in talmudic literature in its geographical and cultural contexts. It demonstrates the sharing of foods and foodways between Jews and their non-Jewish neighbours in the Near East in Late Antiquity.

Using both ancient written sources and archaeological evidence, this book sets the foods of the Mishnah and Palestinian Talmud in their Graeco-Roman context, and the foods of the Babylonian Talmud and the ge'onim in their Persian and Arab contexts. It explores practices of food preparation and their contribution to the ancient diet, as well as analysing the relationships between food, status and culture. The rabbinical authors of talmudic literature were more concerned with everyday food than were aristocratic Classical authors; by examining both talmudic sources and archaeological finds, this book paints a new picture of the diet, lifestyle and culture of ordinary people.

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