Altmann Festive Meals in Ancient Israel

Deuteronomy's Identity Politics in Their Ancient Near Eastern Context
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-025537-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
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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.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Altmann, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgements;6
2;Table of Contents;8
3;Abbreviations;12
4;Introduction;14
5;1. Overview of the History of Scholarship of Deuteronomy;18
5.1;1.1. Compositional History;21
5.1.1;1.1.1. Deuteronomy, Hezekiah, and Josiah;21
5.1.2;1.1.2. Streams of Scholarly Analysis;24
5.2;1.2. Methodology for Dating Texts;28
5.2.1;1.2.1. The Relationship Between the Deuteronomic and the Covenant Codes;31
5.2.2;1.2.2. The Form of Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic "Code";35
5.2.3;1.2.3. Deuteronomy’s Relationship to Assyrian Imperialism?;44
6;2. Treatment of the Deuteronomic Cultic Meals;50
6.1;2.1. Methodological Note: Interpretation of the DC Meal Texts as Texts About Meals;54
6.2;2.2. The Anthropology of Meals;55
6.2.1;2.2.1. The "Socio-Genetic" Code: Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives;57
6.2.1.1;2.2.1.1. Goody;57
6.2.1.2;2.2.1.2. Sutton;59
6.2.1.3;2.2.1.3. Montanari;61
6.2.2;2.2.2. The "Psycho-genetic" Code: Biology of Smell and Taste;63
6.3;2.3. Recent Uses of Anthropology in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Studies on Commensality;67
6.3.1;2.3.1. Schmitt: Das Essen in der Bibel;67
6.3.2;2.3.2. Belnap: "Filets of Fatling and Goblets of Gold";68
6.3.3;2.3.3. Janzen: The Social Meaning of Sacrifice;69
6.3.4;2.3.4. MacDonald: Not Bread Alone;70
6.4;2.4. The Use of Ritual Theory;73
6.5;2.5. Outline of the Work;79
7;3. Material Culture and the Symbolic Meaning of Meat in Deuteronomy 12;85
7.1;3.1. Introduction;85
7.2;3.2. Importance of Meat as a Symbol in the Biblical Corpus;87
7.3;3.3. Iconography and Records of Meat and Banquets in the Ancient Near East;91
7.4;3.4. Diet and Archaeozoology;112
7.5;3.5. Deuteronomy 12: Compositional History;120
7.5.1;3.5.1. The Election Formula as a Proposed Key to Relative Dating;124
7.5.2;3.5.2. Compositional History and Reading of Deut 12:13-27;126
7.6;3.6. Conclusion: Significance of Meat From a Socio-Political Background;141
8;4. The Cultic Meals of the Deuteronomic Cultic Calendar (16:1-17) in Light of Comparative ANE Texts;146
8.1;4.1. Introduction;146
8.2;4.2. Ritual Texts;149
8.2.1;4.2.1. Emar and the zukru Festival Texts;149
8.2.2;4.2.2. Ugaritic CTU 1.40 (RS 1.002);161
8.3;4.3. Narrative Texts;169
8.3.1;4.3.1. Akkadian Akitu and Enuma Elish;169
8.3.2;4.3.2. Ugaritic Narratives;180
8.3.2.1;4.3.2.1. The Rephaim texts (CTU 1.20-22);182
8.3.2.2;4.3.2.2. El’s Feast (CTU 1.114);185
8.3.2.3;4.3.2.4. Baal Cycle;186
8.3.2.4;4.3.2.5. Conclusions from the Ugaritic Narrative Material;192
8.4;4.4. Inner-biblical Comparison;199
8.4.1;4.4.1. Exodus 12:1-13:16;199
8.4.2;4.4.2. Exodus 23 and Source-Critical Analysis of Deuteronomy 16;203
8.5;4.5. Interpretation of Deuteronomy 16:1-17;211
9;5. Deuteronomy 14:22-29 in Light of Ancient Near Eastern Tribute and Modern Anthropology;224
9.1;5.1. Introduction;224
9.2;5.2. Deuteronomy 14:22-29: A History of Scholarship;225
9.2.1;5.2.1. Comparison with Pentateuchal Texts (Num 18:21-32; Lev 27:30-33);225
9.2.2;5.2.2. Compositional History of Deuteronomy 14:22-29;228
9.3;5.3. Ancient Near Eastern and Israelite Background;234
9.4;5.4. Reading of Deuteronomy 14:22-29;240
9.5;5.5. Synthesis of Exegesis, Social Scientific, and Biological Evidence;251
10;6. Conclusion;254
11;Bibliography;258
12;Index;300

Über Autor(innen)

Altmann, Peter
Peter Altmann, University of Zurich, Switzerland