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Author:   Rebekah Welton
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   183
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004423480

ISBN 10:   9004423486
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   20 February 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 1 Introduction  1 Eating and Drinking  2 Food and Drink in Hebrew Bible Scholarship  3 The Ritual Nature of Foodstuffs  4 Food and Alcohol as Social Agents  5 Book Outline 2 The Socio-Religious Roles of Animals and Food in Ancient Israel and Judah  1 Overview  2 Animal Husbandry and So-Called ‘Secondary Products’  3 Urban and Rural Meat Consumption  4 Sheep, Goats and Cattle: Dairy, Wool, Ploughing and Dung  5 Animal Sacrifice in an Entangled, Agro-Pastoral Perspective  6 Crops: Grains, Pulses, Vegetables and Fruit  7 Vegetal Sacrifice  8 Other Food Items: Birds, Fish, Honey, and Pigs  9 Summary 3 The Socio-Religious Roles of Beer and Wine in Ancient Israel and Judah  1 Overview  2 The Psychoactive Effects of Alcohol  3 Brewing Beer in Ancient Israel and Judah  4 The Socio-Ritual Roles of Beer  5 Viticulture in Ancient Israel and Judah  6 The Socio-Ritual Roles of Wine  7 How Wine Has Overshadowed Beer in Bible and Scholarship  8 Summary 4 Excessive Food Consumption in the Hebrew Bible  1 Overview  2 Excessive Consumption and Forgetting Yahweh  3 Excessive Consumption in Elite Contexts  4 Excessive Consumption as Blessing  5 Summary 5 Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the Hebrew Bible  1 Overview  2 Drunkenness in Elite Contexts  3 Drunkenness and the Erotic  4 Drunkenness as Blessing from Yahweh  5 The Cup of Wrath Motif  6 Summary 6 ‘Deviant’ Consumption in the Hebrew Bible  1 Overview  2 ‘A Glutton and a Drunkard’ in Deut 21:18–21  3 Episodes of Consumption with Similarities to Deut 21:18–21  4 ‘Deviant’ Consumption in the Worship of Other Gods  5 ‘Deviant’ Consumption Associated with Mortuary Rites  6 ‘Deviant’ Consumption in Yahweh’s Cult  7 Episodes of Consumption That Utilise זולל and סבא  8 סבא in Hos 4:16–19, Isa 1:21–23a, Isa 56:12 and Ezek 23:42  9 זולל in Jeremiah 15:19 and Lamentations 1:11  10 זולל and סבא in Proverbs  11 Returning to Deuteronomy  12 Summary 7 Conclusions Bibliography Author Index Subject Index Index of Biblical References

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Rebekah Welton, Ph. D. (2018), University of Exeter, is Lecturer in Jewish Studies at that university. She has publications on the roles of animals, food and alcohol in Israelite cultures as well as on retellings of biblical texts in popular visual media, such as video games.

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