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Food taboos and biblical prohibitions : reassessing archaeological and literary perspectives

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  • Bibliographic Note
    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    • Content
    • Introduction : setting the table
    • Purity, taboo and food in antiquity. Theoretical and methodological issues
    • Animals in the ancient Mesopotamian diet. Prohibitions and regulations related to meat in the first millennium BCE
    • “Food prohibitions” in pharaonic Egypt. Discourses and practices
    • Identifying the biblical food prohibitions using zooarchaeological methods
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