To Eat or Not to Eat

Studies on the Biblical Dietary Prohibitions

by Peter Altmann and Anna Angelini

Book cover: To Eat or Not to Eat

Extent: 305 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Ancient Near East, Biblical Studies, Classical Studies

Series: Archaeology and Bible

Series volume number: 9

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(August 2024)

ISBN: 9783161636578

9.09 x 6.06 inches

Price: $118.00

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Anna Angelini and Peter Altmann address pivotal issues on the biblical dietary prohibitions and their significance as practices and texts through philological, zooarchaeological, iconographic, and comparative ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman lenses.


Anna Angelini and Peter Altmann address pivotal issues on the biblical dietary prohibitions and their significance as practices and texts through philological, zooarchaeological, iconographic, and comparative ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman lenses. They explore theoretical frameworks adopted in modern interpretation, possible origins in relation to ancient Israelite religion and society, and location in relation to Priestly terminology and Deuteronomic tradition. The authors expand the arc of investigation to the Second Temple reception of the prohibitions in both the Dead Sea Scrolls and Greco-Roman discourses from the first centuries CE. With their foundational studies, they provide an approach to the dietary prohibitions, opening the way for reconstructing their path of development into their present-day contexts.

  • By (author) Peter Altmann
  • By (author) Anna Angelini