Food Taboos and Biblical Prohibitions

Peter Altmann (Herausgegeben von) 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 Fuller Theological Seminary.Anna Angelini (Herausgegeben von) Born 1979; 2008 PhD Anthropology of the Ancient World, University of Siena; 2013-19 Senior Researcher and Teaching Fellow University of Lausanne; 2020-2024 Senior Researcher University of Zurich; currently Assistant Professor in Greek Language and Literature at the University of Siena.Abra Spiciarich (Herausgegeben von) Born 1989; 2015 MA in Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University; since 2016 doctoral student in Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv.

• Peter Altmann/Anna Angelini/Abra Spiciarich: Introduction: Setting the Table - Peter Altmann/Anna Angelini: Purity, Taboo and Food in Antiquity. Theoretical and Methodological Issues - Stefania Ermidoro: Animals in the Ancient Mesopotamian Diet. Prohibitions and Regulations Related to Meat in the First Millennium BCE - Youri Volokhine: "Food Prohibitions" in Pharaonic Egypt. Discourses and Practices - Abra Spiciarich: Identifying the Biblical Food Prohibitions Using Zooarchaeological Methods - Jonathan S. Greer: Prohibited Pigs and Prescribed Priestly Portions. Zooarchaeological Remains from Tel Dan and Questions Concerning Ethnicity and Priestly Traditions in the Hebrew Bible - Deirdre N. Fulton: Distinguishing Judah and Philistia. A Zooarchaeological View from Ramat Raḥel and Ashkelon - Débora Sandhaus: Continuity, Innovation and Transformation in Cooking Habits. The Central and Southern Shephelah between the Late Fourth and the First Centuries BCE