Preface
I. Introduction
II. Food in the Bible: Our Animals, Their Animals
III. The Second Temple Period: The Food of the Gentiles
IV. "Thou Shalt Not Eat a Calf with a Mother’s Milk"
V. Problematic Mixings
VI. Blessing Food
VII. Waiting for the Next Meal
VIII. Separating the Dishes
IX. Crossing Boundaries
X. "Bugs in the System (Kashrut Wars)
Notes
Bibliography
Biography
David Kraemer is Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he has taught since 1979. Over the course of these 25 years, he has contributed to the training of thousands of rabbis, cantors, Jewish educators and others, many of whom are now active as leaders in Jewish communities across the country and abroad. He has published six books on topics as varied as Rabbinic understandings of human suffering, beliefs concerning death and the afterlife in Rabbinic Judaism, and the Jewish family. His intellectual history of the Babylonian Talmud, The Mind of the Talmud, was named an "Outstanding Academic Book of 1991" by Choice (May 1992). Kraemer has also published hundreds of articles, columns and opinion pieces, both scholarly and popular.
