TY  - BOOK
AU  - Altmann,Peter
TI  - Festive meals in ancient Israel: Deuteronomy's identity politics in their ancient Near Eastern context 
T2  - Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft,
SN  - 9783110255379
AV  - BS1275.6.D55 A48 2011eb
U1  - 222/.15083942 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Berlin, New York
PB  - De Gruyter
KW  - Bible
KW  - Deuteronomy
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - fast
KW  - Dinners and dining
KW  - Biblical teaching
KW  - Fasts and feasts
KW  - Food habits
KW  - Israel
KW  - Middle East
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Biblical Studies
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
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