Ancient Jewish Food in Its Geographical and Cultural Contexts: What's Cooking in the Talmuds?

by Susan Weingarten

This book is the first in-depth study of food in talmudic literature in its geographical and cultural contexts. It demonstrates the sharing of foods and foodways between Jews and their non-Jewish neighbours in the Near East in Late Antiquity.

Using both ancient written sources and archaeological evidence, this book sets the foods of the Mishnah and Palestinian Talmud in their Graeco-Roman context, and the foods of the Babylonian Talmud and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032009977
• ISBN13: 9781032009971
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 352 Pages