Food in Ancient Judah: Domestic Cooking in the Time of the Hebrew Bible

ISBN-13: 9781908049735 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 352 str.

Cynthia Shafer-Elliott

Opis

Food in Ancient Judah explores both the archaeological remains and ancient Near Eastern sources to see what they reveal about the domestic gastronomical daily life of ancient Judahites within the narratives of the Hebrew Bible.

Recenzje

'Schafer-Elliott provides a helpful model of careful attention to the archaeology of homes and how the spaces are used in those homes.' - Stephen Reed, Jamestown College, Review of Biblical Literature

'This innovative study offers new insights into the meanings behind cooking in the Hebrew Bible while also making an important contribution to the development of household archaeology in the southern Levant.' - Jennie Ebeling, University of Evansville, USA

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The ancient household and its food  2. Settlement classification in Iron age Judah  3. A spatial analysis of Iron II Judahite settlements  4. Broader persepctives: art, literature, and ethnography  5. Home cooking in the Hebrew Bible  6. Conclusion: mixing the ingredients together  Notes  Bibliography  Index of ancient references  Index of authors  Index of subjects

O autorze

Cynthia Shafer-Elliott is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at William Jessup University in Rocklin, California.