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Feasting in the Archaeology and Texts of the Bible and the Ancient - Near Eas

English · Paperback / Softback

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This volume brings together the work of scholars using various methodologies to investigate the prevalence, importance, and meanings of feasting and foodways in the texts and cultural-material environments of the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East. Thus, it serves as both an introduction to and explication of this emerging field. The offerings range from the third-millennium Early Dynastic period in Mesopotamia to the rise of a new cuisine in the Islamic period and transverse geographical locations such as southern Iraq, Syria, the Aegean, and especially the southern Levant.
The strength of this collection lies in the many disciplines and methodologies that come together. Texts, pottery, faunal studies, iconography, and anthropological theory are all accorded a place at the table in locating the importance of feasting as a symbolic, social, and political practice. Various essays showcase both new archaeological methodologies?zooarchaeological bone analysis and spatial analysis?and classical methods such as iconographic studies, ceramic chronology, cultural anthropology, and composition-critical textual analysis.

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Authors Peter Altmann, Janling Altmann Fu
Assisted by Peter Altmann (Editor), Altmann Peter (Editor), Janling Fu (Editor), Fu Janling (Editor)
Publisher Eisenbrauns publications
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 15.10.2014
 
EAN 9781575063232
ISBN 978-1-57506-323-2
No. of pages 320
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity
Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient / Biblical Israel, Archaeology, Archaeology by period / region, Biblical Archaeology

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