Decisive meals
Subtitle: table politics in biblical literature
By: edited by Nathan MacDonald, Luzia Sutter Rehmann, and Kathy Ehrensperger
Series: Library of New Testament studies -- 449; T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Publisher: T&T Clark
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780567526014
Subjects: Dinners and dining in the Bible; Criticism, interpretation; Bible; Congresses
Notes: "Essays ... were originally presented at the biblical studies symposium 'Decisive meals - Was sich beim Essen entscheidet' held at ... the University of Basel ... in Switzerland on the 18-19 February 2011"--Introduction p. [ix].

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-176) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 'The eyes of all look to you' : the generosity of the divine king / Nathan MacDonald; title: Everyday meals for extraordinary people : eating and assimilation in the book of Ruth / Peter Altmann; title: Eating and living : the banquets in the Esther narratives / Susanne Plietzsch; title: You are how you eat : how eating and drinking behaviour identifies the wise according to Jesus Ben Sirach / Ursula Rapp; title: 'And all ate and were filled' (Mark 6.42 par.) : the feeding narratives in the context of Hellenistic-Roman banquet culture / Angela Standhartinger; title: The various tastes of Johannine bread and blood : a multi-perspective reading of John 6 / Esther Kobel; title: What happened in Caesarea? : symphagein as bonding experience (Acts 10-11.18) / Luzia Sutter Rehmann; title: To eat or not to eat-is this the question? : table disputes in Corinth / Kathy Ehrensperger; title: The power of an invitation : early Christian meals in their cultural context / Soham Al-Suadi; title: Meals as acts of resistance and experimentation : the case of the Revelation to John / Hal Taussig.