A group for AJS members interested in Jewish history and culture in Antiquity
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Jordan Rosenblum deposited Home is Where the Hearth Is?: Jewish Household Sacrifice as Appropriation in the group
Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity on AJS Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoHousehold sacrifice is a common feature of the ancient Mediterranean. While offerings are made in temples, a home altar is a frequent sacrificial site. This raises an intriguing question for scholars of Judaism in antiquity: do Jews also sacrifice on household altars? While Judaism in antiquity is riotously diverse, it often looks very much like…[Read more]
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Jordan Rosenblum deposited Jewish Meals in Antiquity in the group
Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity on AJS Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoA discussion of rabbinic meal practices.
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Jordan Rosenblum deposited Kosher Olive Oil in Antiquity Reconsidered in the group
Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity on AJS Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoJosephus attests several times to a Jewish aversion to the use of Gentile olive oil. In m. ‘Abod. Zar. 2:6, this practice is first advocated and then immediately reversed by Rabbi and his court. What is the rationale for this sudden leniency with regard to Gentile olive oil? In a well-known article entitled “Kosher Olive Oil in Antiquity,” Marti…[Read more]
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Jordan Rosenblum deposited From Their Bread to Their Bed: Commensality, Intermarriage, and Idolatry in Tannaitic Literature in the group
Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity on AJS Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoIn the tannaitic corpus, a novel innovation appears: sharing bread is understood to lead to sharing a bed. As such, the Tannaim problematise and marginalise commensal interactions between Jews and non-Jews. In several instances, commensality with non-Jews is equated with idolatry, the binary opposite of Jewishness in rabbinic literature. While…[Read more]
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Jordan Rosenblum deposited Justifications for Foodways and the Study of Commensality in the group
Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity on AJS Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoJustifications for foodways are too often ignored in the academic study of commensality. In seeking to understand how a particular group constructs the rules around the table – what, how, and with whom one will or will not eat – the rationales for these rules must be factored into any scholarly analysis. In this essay, I use the example of anc…[Read more]
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Jordan Rosenblum deposited “Why Do You Refuse to Eat Pork?”: Jews, Food, and Identity in Roman Palestine in the group
Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity on AJS Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoExplores the connections between Jews, Romans, pork, and identity.
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