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From Their Bread to Their Bed: Commensality, Intermarriage, and Idolatry in Tannaitic Literature
- Author(s):
- Jordan Rosenblum (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Group(s):
- Ancient Jew Review, Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity, Jewish Studies, Rabbinic Literature and Culture
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Talmud, Midrash, and Rabbinics
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M66081
- Abstract:
- In 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 this connection is absent from Hebrew Bible texts and, at best, inchoate in a handful of Second Temple period sources, it is explicit in later amoraic literature. This article explores the gap between these corpora: tannaitic literature, in which we first encounter the rabbinic connection between bread and bed.
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- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 7 years ago
- License:
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