Decisive meals [[electronic resource] ] : table politics in Biblical literature / / edited by Nathan MacDonald, Luzia Sutter Rehmann and Kathy Ehrensperge

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461717003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : T & T Clark, 2012
• ISBN: 1-280-57951-X; 9786613609298; 0-567-45276-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Collana: The Library of New Testament studies ; ; 449
• Altri autori (Persone): EhrenspergerKathy <1956->; MacDonaldNathan <1975->; Sutter RehmannLuzia
• Disciplina: 226.406
• Soggetti: Dinners and dining in the Bible; Dinners and dining - Religious aspects; Food - Religious aspects; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1. 'The Eyes of All Look to You': The Generosity of the Divine King; 2. Everyday Meals for Extraordinary People: Eating andAssimilation in the Book of Ruth; 3. Eating and Living: The Banquets in the Esther Narratives; 4. You Are How You Eat: How Eating and Drinking Behaviour Identifies the Wise According to Jesus Ben Sirach; 5. 'And All Ate and Were Filled' (Mark 6.42 par.): The FeedingNarratives in the Context of Hellenistic-Roman BanquetCulture; 6. The Various Tastes of Johannine Bread and Blood:A Multi-Perspective Reading of John 6; 7. What Happened in Caesarea? Symphagein as BondingExperience (Acts 10-11.18)8. To Eat or Not to Eat - Is this the Question? Table Disputesin Corinth; 9. The Power of an Invitation: Early Christian Meals in theirCultural Context; 10. Meals as Acts of Resistance and Experimentation: The Caseof the Revelation to John; Bibliography; Index of Ancient Authors; Index of Modern Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: Decisive Meals discusses various aspects of meal traditions and their relevance in terms of boundaries between different groups in the context of first century Judaism and the early Christ-movement. The contributors discuss different communities at different times and places under the same focus of common meals: The postexilic community in Judaea, the Pauline communities in Asia Minor, as well as in the Roman dominated city of Caesarea and the Hellenistic Jewish community and the emerging rabbinical community each time a community is affected through the sharing of meals, but how exactly? What