Jordan D. Rosenblum is the Belzer Professor of Classical Judaism and the Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Rabbinic Drinking: What Beverages Teach Us about Rabbinic Literature; The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World; and Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism; and has co-edited 4 books, including: Feasting and Fasting: The History and Ethics of Jewish Food; and Animals and the Law in Antiquity.