عنوان

Foreigners and their food: constructing otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic law

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Eng

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Foreigners and their food: constructing otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic law

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Berkeley, CA

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University of California Press

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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David M. Freidenreich

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Part I. Introduction: Imagining Otherness: -- 1. Good fences make good neighbors -- 2. "A people made holy to the Lord" : meals, meat, and the nature of Israel's holiness in the Hebrew Bible -- Part II. Jewish Sources on Foreign Food Restrictions : Marking Otherness : -- 3. "They kept themselves apart in the matter of food" : the nature and significance of Hellenistic Jewish food practices -- 4. "These Gentile items are prohibited" : the foodstuffs of foreigners in early rabbinic literature -- 5. "How nice is this bread!" : intersections of Talmudic scholasticism and foreign food restrictions -- Part III. Christian Sources on Foreign Food Restrictions : Defining Otherness : -- 6. "No distinction between Jew and Greek" : the roles of food in defining the Christ-believing community -- 7. "Be on your guard against food offered to idols" : "eidطolothuton" and early Christian identity -- 8. "How could their food not be impure?" : Jewish food and the definitions of Christianity -- Part IV. Islamic Sources on Foreign Food Restrictions : Relativizing Otherness : -- 9. "Eat the permitted and good foods God has given you" : relativizing communities in theQur'an -- 01. "'Their food' means their meat" : Sunni discourse on non-Muslim acts of animal slaughter -- 11. "Only monotheists may be entrusted with slaughter" : the targets of Shi i foreign food restrictions -- Part IV. Comparative Case Studies : Engaging Otherness : -- 21. "Jewish food" : the imnplications of medieval Islamic and Christian debates about the definition of Judaism -- 31. Christians "adhere to God's book," but Muslims "Judaize" : Islamic and Christian classifications of one another -- 41. "Idolaters who do not engage in idolatry" : rabbinic discourse about Muslims, Christians, and wine

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Comparative studies ، Food -- Religious aspects

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Comparative studies ، Identification )Religion(

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Relations ، Religions

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Dietary laws ، Jews

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Dietary laws ، Muslims

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Religious aspects -- Christianity ، Food

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7791-

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Freidenreich, David M

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AU

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