Decisive Meals

Kathy Ehrensperger is Reader in New Testament Studies, University of Wales, Lampeter, UK.Luzia Sutter Rehmann is Professor of New Testament at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

• Part I: Introduction - Kathy Ehrensperger, Nathan MacDonald, Luzia Sutter RehmannPart II: Decisive Boundaries1. Food and Identity in the Post-Exilic Period - Nathan MacDonald2. Decisive Dinners in Esther: a Paradigm for the Jewish People in Masoretic, Greek, and Rabbinic Tradition - Susanne Plietzsch3. To Eat or Not To Eat - Is this the Question ? Table Disputes in Corinth - Kathy Ehrensperger 4. Allies or Enemies? What happened in Caesarea? (Acts 10-11) - Luzia Sutter RehmannPart III: Learning at the Table5. Feasting in Deuteronomy - Peter Altmann6. Is John a Chameleon ? A Pluralistic Reading of John 6 - Esther KobelPart IV: The Dynamics of Power at Meals7. Meals as Acts of Resistance and Experimentation, Hal Taussig8. Gender and Power Dynamics at the Table - Ursula Rapp9. And they all ate and were satisfied': The Feeding Naratives in the Context of Roman and Hellenistic Festival Traditions, Angela Standhartinger10. The Identity Transforming Dimension of Invitations - Soham Al SuadiPart V: Conclusion - Ekkehard W. Stegemann

Decisive Meals is definitely a valuable and well written book. It deals with an interesting and important biblical topic ... and it is definitely worth recommending both to the scholars and to the students interested in the issue.