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The Jewish dietary laws in the ancient world /
"A key component of this project is the history of interpretation of biblical dietary laws. As such, it is essential that the reader first becomes acquainted with what the Hebrew Bible says - and even more importantly, what it does not say. Chapter One therefore examines all of the biblical foo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "A key component of this project is the history of interpretation of biblical dietary laws. As such, it is essential that the reader first becomes acquainted with what the Hebrew Bible says - and even more importantly, what it does not say. Chapter One therefore examines all of the biblical food laws and their justifications (or, almost always, their lack thereof), including: abstaining from certain animals (sometimes categorically and other times specifically), animals that die a natural death, animals killed by other animals, blood, the sciatic nerve, and slaughtering a mother and her child on the same day; sending away the mother bird from the nest before taking her eggs/chicks; and cooking a kid in its mother's milk. In discussing the supposed rationalizations for these regulations, I consider well-known anthropological and popular accounts (Mary Douglas, Jacob Milgrom, Marvin Harris, etc.)"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 193 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781108114479 1108114474 9781316106655 1316106659 9781107462281 1107462282 1108109713 9781108109710 1108110398 9781108110396 1108105629 9781108105620 1108111076 9781108111072 1108111750 9781108111751 |
| Acceso: | Access restricted to subscribing institutions. |