A Table in the Presence of My Enemies
Banqueting and Battling in Ancient Israel
Published on 25. June 2024
210 pages
978-1-6667-6161-0 (ISBN)
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Psalm 23, the most beloved of the Psalms, contains a perplexing riddle. What can it possibly mean that God prepares a table in the presence of the psalmist's enemies? Matthew Umbarger proposes that Psalm 23:5 makes the most sense when read according to its cultural context of prebattle covenant banquets. Beginning with ancient Mesopotamian mythology, Umbarger traces a conceptual trajectory of the prebattle banquet motif that reaches its zenith in the apocalyptic banquets of Second Temple Period literature and the eucharistic theology of the early church.
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Matthew Wade Umbarger
A Table in the Presence of My Enemies
Banqueting and Battling in Ancient Israel
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06/2024
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Matthew Wade Umbarger
A Table in the Presence of My Enemies
Banqueting and Battling in Ancient Israel
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06/2024
Cascade Books
€25.40
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Matthew Wade Umbarger is associate professor of theology in the School of Catholic Studies at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas.
