Review of Rosenblum, Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig

BOOK REVIEW: 'A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig': A Hebrew, Talmud, rabbinic expert goes ‘whole hog.’ At the beginning of the Second Temple period, in the Persian era of the 4th to 5th centuries BCE, pigs did not have a unique status; other animals were viewed as equally non-kosher (ARI ZIVOTOFSKY, Jerusalem Post).

In his book A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig, author Jordan D. Rosenblum shares more than two decades’ worth of research. He explains that at the beginning of the Second Temple period, in the Persian era of the 4th to 5th centuries BCE, pigs did not have a unique status; other non-kosher items were viewed as non-kosher as the pig. But by the time of the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in 70 CE, the pig was king of non-kosher and had taken on its role as uber non-kosher.

I noted the publication of the book here.

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