What Did It Feel Like to Be a Jew?: The Kosher Food Laws and Emotional Norms among Ancient Jews
Jewish observance of a set of legal practices constituted the most obvious distinction between Jew and gentile in antiquity. Yet Jewish ritual practice did not only affect the ways in which Jews acted but also how they felt about their Jewishness and their connection to the wider culture. Law and em...
| Published in: | Journal for the study of Judaism |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2022
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Journal for the study of Judaism
Year: 2022, Volume: 53, Issue: 3, Pages: 344-376 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Stoicism
/ Disgust
/ Emotion
/ Legislation
/ Kosher food
/ Rabbinic literature
/ Maccabean books 4.
/ Philo, Alexandrinus 25 BC-40
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| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Philo of Alexandria
B Law B Disgust B 4 Maccabees B Emotion B kosher food laws B Stoicism B Rabbinic Literature |
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| Summary: | Jewish observance of a set of legal practices constituted the most obvious distinction between Jew and gentile in antiquity. Yet Jewish ritual practice did not only affect the ways in which Jews acted but also how they felt about their Jewishness and their connection to the wider culture. Law and emotion play mutually reinforcing roles in both shaping and reflecting a society’s values, an observation that invites the following questions: how did observance of Jewish dietary laws make Jews feel, and which emotional norms were involved in the production of law? The emotions of those who observed the kosher food laws were variously characterized as hate, a self-controlled repudiation of negative emotion, or disgust. Disputes about how to understand the emotions that animate the dietary laws were attempts to define the power relations between Jews and the surrounding world: did Jews enjoy the power to integrate into their Greco-Roman surroundings? |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0631 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of Judaism
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700631-bja10047 |