Festive Meals in Ancient Israel
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Festive Meals in Ancient Israel

Deuteronomy's Identity Politics in Their Ancient Near Eastern Context

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Festive Meals in Ancient Israel

Deuteronomy's Identity Politics in Their Ancient Near Eastern Context

About this book

The festive meal texts of Deuteronomy 12–26 depict Israel as a unified people participating in cultic banquets – a powerful and earthy image for both preexilic Judahite and later audiences. Comparison of Deuteronomy 12:13–27, 14:22–29, 16:1–17, and 26:1–15 with pentateuchal texts like Exodus 20–23 is broadened to highlight the rhetorical potential of the Deuteronomic meal texts in relation to the religious and political circumstances in Israel during the Neo-Assyrian and later periods. The texts employ the concrete and rich image of festive banquets, which the monograph investigates in relation to comparative ancient Near Eastern texts and iconography, the zooarchaeological remains of the ancient Levant, and the findings of cultural anthropology with regard to meals.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9783110255362
eBook ISBN
9783110255379
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Middle Eastern History

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. Overview of the History of Scholarship of Deuteronomy
  6. 2. Treatment of the Deuteronomic Cultic Meals
  7. 3. Material Culture and the Symbolic Meaning of Meat in Deuteronomy 12
  8. 4. The Cultic Meals of the Deuteronomic Cultic Calendar (16:1-17) in Light of Comparative ANE Texts
  9. 5. Deuteronomy 14:22-29 in Light of Ancient Near Eastern Tribute and Modern Anthropology
  10. 6. Conclusion
  11. Bibliography
  12. Index