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"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 #SecondTemple period, in the #Persianera 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 #nonkosher and had taken on its role as uber non-kosher.

Rosenblum points out that great attention is given to pigs in martyrdom stories and forced ingestions. He suggests that the role the pig plays in the Second Temple martyrdom narrative is what led to its out-sized #historical influence and to its becoming a metonym for non-kosher food, both within the #Jewish narrative and the non-Jewish view."

https://www.jpost.com/judaism/article-876415

Reviewing 'A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig' | The Jerusalem Post

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.

The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com