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

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