Matthew Wade Umbarger

A Table in the Presence of My Enemies (eBook, ePUB)

Banqueting and Battling in Ancient Israel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Psalm 23, the most beloved of the Psalms, contains a perplexing riddle. What can it possibly mean that God prepares a table in the presence of the psalmist's enemies? Matthew Umbarger proposes that Psalm 23:5 makes the most sense when read according to its cultural context of prebattle covenant banquets. Beginning with ancient Mesopotamian mythology, Umbarger traces a conceptual trajectory of the prebattle banquet motif that reaches its zenith in the apocalyptic banquets of Second Temple Period literature and the eucharistic theology of the early church.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666761610
• Artikelnr.: 72312559

Autorenporträt

Matthew Wade Umbarger is associate professor of theology in the School of Catholic Studies at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas.