Food and drink in the biblical worlds / board editor, Athalya Brenner ; guest editor: Jan Willem van Henten.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Semeia ; 86.Publication details: Atlanta, GA : Society of Biblical Literature, c1999.Description: xvi, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 220.6 Se52 v.86
LOC classification:
  • BS680.F6 F66 1999
Other classification:
  • 11.33
Contents:
Our menu and what is not on it: editors' introduction / Athalya Brenner and Jan Willem van Henten -- pt. 1. Food production and marketing. "Oil from flinty rock" (Deuteronomy 32:13): olive cultivation and olive oil processing in the Hebrew Bible: a socio-materialist perspective / Frank S. Frick -- Treading the winepress: actual and metaphorical viticulture in the ancient Near East / Victor H. Matthews -- Luke's market exchange district: decentering Luke's rich urban center / Jim Grimshaw -- pt. 2. Seductive menus. From Queen to cuisine: food imagery in the Jezebel narrative / Deborah A. Appler -- To eat or not to eat: where is Wisdom in this choice? / Judith E. McKinlay -- Salome and Jesus at table in the Gospel of Thomas / Kathleen E. Corley -- pt. 3. Imaginative foods. The food of love: gendered food and food imagery in the Song of Songs / Athalya Brenner -- YHWH's sour grapes: images of food and drink in the prophetic discourses of the Hebrew Bible / Robert P. Carroll -- pt. 4. On not-eating. When fathers refuse to eat: the trope of rejecting food and drink in biblical narrative / Diane M. Sharon -- pt. 5. Food as a social marker. Food, drink and sects: the question of ingestion in the Qumran texts / Philip R. Davies -- "Not by bread alone ... ": the ritualization of food and table talk in the Passover Seder and in the Last Supper / Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus -- Jewish food laws in early Christian community discourse / Peter J. Tomson -- pt. 6. Responses. Eating their words / Alice Bach -- A question of theory or experimentality / Daniel Boyarin -- Reflections on table fellowship and community identity / Adele Reinhartz.
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Books Books Tantur Ecumenical Institute Library Main Collection (Lower Floor) 220.6 Se52 v.86 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SS000775038

Includes bibliographical references.

Our menu and what is not on it: editors' introduction / Athalya Brenner and Jan Willem van Henten -- pt. 1. Food production and marketing. "Oil from flinty rock" (Deuteronomy 32:13): olive cultivation and olive oil processing in the Hebrew Bible: a socio-materialist perspective / Frank S. Frick -- Treading the winepress: actual and metaphorical viticulture in the ancient Near East / Victor H. Matthews -- Luke's market exchange district: decentering Luke's rich urban center / Jim Grimshaw -- pt. 2. Seductive menus. From Queen to cuisine: food imagery in the Jezebel narrative / Deborah A. Appler -- To eat or not to eat: where is Wisdom in this choice? / Judith E. McKinlay -- Salome and Jesus at table in the Gospel of Thomas / Kathleen E. Corley -- pt. 3. Imaginative foods. The food of love: gendered food and food imagery in the Song of Songs / Athalya Brenner -- YHWH's sour grapes: images of food and drink in the prophetic discourses of the Hebrew Bible / Robert P. Carroll -- pt. 4. On not-eating. When fathers refuse to eat: the trope of rejecting food and drink in biblical narrative / Diane M. Sharon -- pt. 5. Food as a social marker. Food, drink and sects: the question of ingestion in the Qumran texts / Philip R. Davies -- "Not by bread alone ... ": the ritualization of food and table talk in the Passover Seder and in the Last Supper / Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus -- Jewish food laws in early Christian community discourse / Peter J. Tomson -- pt. 6. Responses. Eating their words / Alice Bach -- A question of theory or experimentality / Daniel Boyarin -- Reflections on table fellowship and community identity / Adele Reinhartz.

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