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Meals in the Early Christian World: Social Formation, Experimentation, and Conflict at the Table

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Meals in the Early Christian World: Social Formation, Experimentation, and Conflict at the Table

Meals in the Early Christian World: Social Formation, Experimentation, and Conflict at the Table By Dennis E. Smith, Hal Taussig
2012 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 1137002883 | PDF | 2 MB


In the past 20 years a new paradigm has emerged around the study of festive dining as a seminal social practice that functioned as the matrix for social formation of a variety of groups in the Greco-Roman world, including earliest Christianity and pre-Rabbinic Judaism. Most recently, an international team of scholars, organized as the Society of Biblical Literature Seminar on Meals in the Greco-Roman World, has developed this paradigm in a series of groundbreaking studies. This book provides a collection of those studies divided into three categories of investigation: 1) The Typology and Context of the Greco-Roman Banquet, 2) Who Was at the Greco-Roman Banquets, 3) The Culture of Reclining. These studies extend the scope of the influence of the meals and begin to detail their effects on a variety of Greco-Roman populations. Together they establish festive meals as an essential lens into social formation in the Greco-Roman world.