Festive Meals in Ancient Israel

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