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Illustrations 1. Israelite distinctiveness and Israelite dietary restrictions 23 2. Holiness and impurity 28 3. Judean and Alexandrian conceptions of Jews and Jewish dietary practices 44 4. The impact of Hellenistic culture on Jewish ideas about foreigners and food 46 5. The impact of scholasticism on the Mishnah’s foreign food restrictions 57 6. Early conceptions of the identity of the Christ-believing community 94 7. The early Church: “neither Jewish nor Greek” 103 8. A Christian image of Jewish animal slaughter 111 9. The impact of scriptural interpretation: Augustine and al-Murtabā 168 10. Foreign food restrictions and the transmission of ideas about Us and Them 180 11. The impact of Talmudic interpretation: Rambam and Rashbam on wine 220 ix This page intentionally left blank ...

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