Foreigners and Their Food

List of Illustrations
Preface
Notes on Style and Abbreviations

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": Eidolothuton and Early Christian Identity
8. "How Could Their Food Not Be Impure?": Jewish Food and the Definition 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 the Qur?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 Shi?i Foreign Food Restrictions

Part V. Comparative Case Studies: Engaging Otherness
12. "Jewish Food": The Implications 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

Notes
Works Cited
Index