Rate My Professor Jordan Rosenblum

Rosenblum has produced influential scholarship that has shaped understandings of food, identity, and law in ancient Judaism. His books include Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig (New York University Press, 2024), which won the 2024 National Jewish Book Award; Rabbinic Drinking: What Beverages Teach Us About Rabbinic Literature (University of California Press, 2020); The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World (Cambridge University Press, 2016); and Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism (Cambridge University Press, 2010). He co-edited Feasting and Fasting: The History and Ethics of Jewish Food (New York University Press, 2019); Animals and the Law in Antiquity (Brown Judaic Studies, 2021); With the Loyal You Show Yourself Loyal: Essays on Relationships in the Hebrew Bible in Honor of Saul M. Olyan (SBL Press, 2021); and Religious Competition in the Third Century C.E.: Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman World (Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2014). Notable articles include “The Swine Suicides: On the Appearance and Disappearance of Pork-Related Jewish Martyrdom in Antiquity” (Journal of Religious Competition in Antiquity, 2019) and “‘Blessings of the Breasts’: Breastfeeding in Rabbinic Literature” (Hebrew Union College Annual, 2016). He is currently researching the history of kosher controversies. The Wall Street Journal praised Forbidden as “an engaging and surprisingly cheerful study of that odd couple of the religious imagination, the Jew and the pig.”