Altmann, Peter. <br/><br/>
Festive meals in ancient Israel :  Deuteronomy's identity politics in their ancient Near Eastern context / 
Peter Altmann. 
 - Berlin ;  New York :  De Gruyter,  ©2011. 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 299 pages) :  illustrations 
 - Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft,  Bd. 424  0934-2575 ; .
 - Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ;  424. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Overview of the History of Scholarship of Deuteronomy -- Treatment of the Deuteronomic Cultic Meals -- Material Culture and the Symbolic Meaning of Meat in Deuteronomy 12 -- The Cultic Meals of the Deuteronomic Cultic Calendar (16:1-17) in Light of Comparative ANE Texts -- Deuteronomy 14:22-29 in Light of Ancient Near Eastern Tribute and Modern Anthropology. 
<br/><br/> This study investigates the festive meals in Deuteronomy's laws in comparison to depictions of meals in other biblical texts, as well as ancient Near Eastern texts and iconography. Its eclectic, interdisciplinary approach includes discussion of the archaeology of meals in the ancient Levant and recent anthropological findings on meals in order to emphasize the centrality of meals for identity formation as well as for political and religious rhetoric in the texts of Deuteronomy. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783110255379 3110255375 1283400472 9781283400473 3110255367 9783110255362 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Bible.--Deuteronomy--Criticism, interpretation, etc.<br/>Bible.--Deuteronomy.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Dinners and dining--Biblical teaching.<br/>Fasts and feasts--Biblical teaching.<br/>Food habits--Israel.<br/>Food habits--Middle East.<br/>RELIGION--Biblical Studies--Old Testament.<br/>Fasts and feasts--Biblical teaching.<br/>Food habits.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Israel.<br/>Middle East.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Criticism, interpretation, etc.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BS1275.6.D55  / A48 2011eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>222/.15083942