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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826435003321

Autore

Altmann Peter

Titolo

Festive meals in ancient Israel : Deuteronomy's identity politics in their ancient Near Eastern context / / Peter Altmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter, c2011

ISBN

1-283-40047-2

9786613400475

3-11-025537-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Collana

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, , 0934-2575 ; ; Bd. 424

Disciplina

222/.15083942

Soggetti

Dinners and dining - Biblical teaching

Fasts and feasts - Biblical teaching

Food habits - Israel

Food habits - Middle East

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

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.