04549nam a2200505Ka 4500 ocn753974835 OCoLC 20200709055412.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 110921s2011 caua ob s001 0 eng d N$T N$T 9780520253216 0520253213 9780520950276 (electronic bk.) 0520950275 (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)753974835 386082 (N$T) BL65.F65 F74 2011eb OCC 033000 bisacsh REL 070000 bisacsh 201/.5 22 N$TA Freidenreich, David M., 1977- Foreigners and their food [electronic resource] : constructing otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic law / David M. Freidenreich. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011. 1 online resource (xvii, 325 p.) : ill. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 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" : "eidōlothuton" 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 -- 10. "'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 Shiʻi foreign food restrictions -- Part IV. Comparative Case Studies : Engaging Otherness : -- 12. "Jewish food" : the imnplications of medieval Islamic and Christian debates about the definition of Judaism -- 13. Christians "adhere to God's book," but Muslims "Judaize" : Islamic and Christian classifications of one another -- 14. "Idolaters who do not engage in idolatry" : rabbinic discourse about Muslims, Christians, and wine Foreigners and Their Food explores how Jews, Christians, and Muslims conceptualize "us" and "them" through rules about the preparation of food by adherents of other religions and the act of eating with such outsiders. David M. Freidenreich analyzes the significance of food to religious formation, elucidating the ways ancient and medieval scholars use food restrictions to think about the "other." Freidenreich illuminates the subtly different ways Jews, Christians, and Muslims perceive themselves, and he demonstrates how these distinctive self-conceptions shape ideas about religious foreigners and communal boundaries. This work, the first to analyze change over time across the legal literatures of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, makes pathbreaking contributions to the history of interreligious intolerance and to the comparative study of religion. Description based on print version record. Food Religious aspects Comparative studies. Identification (Religion) Comparative studies. Religions Relations. Jews Dietary laws. Muslims Dietary laws. Food Religious aspects Christianity. BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Gaia & Earth Energies bisacsh RELIGION / Christianity / General bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Freidenreich, David M., 1977- Foreigners and their food. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011 9780520253216 (DLC) 2011006099 (OCoLC)704556995 NetLibrary http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=386082 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 50541 50541