PrefaceAbbreviationsFeasting: Backgrounds, Theoretical Perspectives, and Introductions (Janling Fu and Peter Altmann)Conspicuous Consumption: Dining on Meat in the Ancient Mediterranean World and Near East (Jodi Magness)Feasts on Many Occasions: Diversity in Mesopotamian Banquet Scenes during the Early Dynastic Period (Steve Renette)The Next Level and the Final Stage: Consistency and Change in the Provision of Meals for the Dead in Their Different Stages of Existence and the Accompanying Feasting Acts of the Living, as Evidenced at Mari, Qatna, and Ugarit (Sarah Lange)Power to Unite and Power to Divide: Sacred Feasting and Social Change at Iron II Tel Dan (Jonathan S. Greer)Menu: Royal Repasts and Social Class in Biblical Israel (Carol Meyers)Feast and Famine: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives on Lack as a Backdrop for Plenty in the Hebrew Bible (Peter Altmann)Feasting and Everyday Meals in the World of the Hebrew Bible: The Relationship Reexamined through Material Culture and Texts (Leann Pace)The Role of the Household in the Religious Feasting of Ancient Israel and Judah (Cynthia Shafer-Elliott)Feasting and Foodways in Psalm 23 and the Contribution of Redaction Criticism to the Interpretation of Meals (Klaus-Peter Adam)BibliographyIndexes