Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Gerald A. Klingbeil" <kling AT uap.edu.ar>]

Dear Kevin

have a look at the following items.

Jay M. Eidelman, "Be Holy for I am Holy: Food, Politics, and the Teaching of
Judaism," Journal of Ritual Studies 14.1 (2000): 45-51.

Adele Reinhartz, "Reflection on Table Fellowship and Community Identity," 
Semeia 86 (1999): 227-33.

Diane M. Sharon, "When Fathers Refuse to Eat: The Trope of Rejecting Food 
and Drink in Biblical Narrative," Semeia 86 (1999): 135-48.

Deborah A. Appler, "From Queen to Cuisine: Food Imagery in the Jezebel
Narrative," Semeia 86 (1999): 55-73.

Robert P. Carroll, "YHWH's Sour Grapes: Images of Food and Drink in the
Prophetic Discourses of the Hebrew Bible," Semeia 86 (1999): 113-31.

Judith E. McKinlay, "To Eat or Not To Eat: Where is Wisdom in this Choice?,"
Semeia 86 (1999): 73-84.

Athalya Brenner, "The Food of Love: Gendered Food and Food Imagery in the 
Song of Songs," Semeia 86 (1999): 101-12.

Philip R. Davies, "Food, Drink and Sects: The Question of Ingestion in the
Qumran Texts," Semeia 86 (1999): 151-63.

Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, ""Not by Bread Alone...": The Ritualization of Food
and Table Talk in the Passover Seder and in the Last Supper," Semeia 86 
(1999):
165-91.

Stephen Alan Reed, "Food in the Psalms" (Claremont Graduate School; Ph.D. 
dissertation diss., 1987),

Jean Soler, "The Semiotics of Food in the Bible," in Food and Drink in History
(ed. Robert Forster and Orest Ranum; Annales: Economies, Sociétés,
Civilisations 5; Baltimore, Md.-London, U.K.: John Hopkins University Press,
1979), 126-38.


If you read German, a good resource is

Eleonore Schmitt, Das Essen in der Bibel. Literaturethnologische Aspekte des
Alltäglichen (Studien zur Kulturanthropologie 2; Münster/Hamburg: LIT Verlag,
1994),

I have written a paper entitled


"Momentaufnahmen” Of Israelite Religion: The Importance Of The
Communal Meal In Narrative Texts In 1/2 Kings And Their Ritual
Dimension" that was read for the SBL annual meeting in Denver in
2001 and has been submitted for publication.


Well I guess that should give you something to read :-)


All the best


Gerald





Dr. Gerald A. Klingbeil
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Professor of OT and ANE Studies
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