T&T Clark handbook to early Christian meals in the Greco-Roman world /
T and T Clark handbook to early Christian meals in the Greco-Roman world Handbook to early Christian meals in the Greco-Roman world Early Christian meals in the Greco-Roman world
edited by Soham Al-Suadi and Peter-Ben Smit.
- viii, 404 pages : portrait ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Meals in the works of Philo of Alexandria / Dining with dignity : Josephus's rhetorical use of the Essene common meals / Plutarch's Septem sapientium convivium : an example of Greco-Roman sympotic literature / Meals at Qumran : literary fiction, liturgical anticipation, or performed ritual? / Hermetic texts in Nag Hammadi Codex VI / Meals in the Apostolic Fathers / Prepare yourself : spatial rhetoric in Rabbinic and synoptic meal parables / The Gospel of Mark - the commitment of the 'unleavened' to the kingdom of God agenda of Jesus / Meals in the Gospel of Luke / The primary role of meals in Matthew's construction of diasporic identity / Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, and let the one who believes in me drink : the Johannine Jesus as the true provider of earthly and heavenly nourishment / Interpretations of the Eucharist in the Gospel of Philip / Meals as a literary motif in Acts of the Apostles / The contribution of meal scenes to the narrative theology of Acts of Paul / Eucharists and other meals in the apocryphal Acts of John and Acts of Andrew / Meals in Joseph and Aseneth / The meal in 1 Corinthians 11 / Meals in the letter to the Romans - the debate about the food on the table / Pseudepigraphic letters of Paul / Meals in the Johannine letters / Meals in the further epistolary literature of the New Testament / Useless foods : communal meals in Hebrews / Food in Fourth Ezra / Meals and banqueting culture in the Apocalypse of John / Meals and magic : eating for revelation in the eighth book of Moses (PGM XIII/Leiden I 395) / Meals in ancient medicinal texts / Material meals : space, inscription and image as the texts of daily life / Peter-Ben Smit, Soham Al-Suadi -- Maria Sokolskaya -- William den Hollander -- Matthias Becker -- Claudia D. Bergmann -- Jan Heilmann -- Andrew McGowan -- Eric Ottenheijm -- Martin Ebner -- Matthias Klinghardt -- Hal E. Taussig -- Esther Kobel -- Silke Petersen -- Dennis E. Smith -- Annette Merz -- Jan N. Bremmer -- Angela Standhartinger -- Soham Al-Suadi -- Kathy Ehrensperger -- Soham Al-Suadi -- Jan Heilmann -- Hans Joachim Stein -- Gabriella Gelardini -- Peter-Ben Smit -- Markus Öhler -- Monika Amsler -- John Wilkins -- Lillian I. Larsen, Jesper Blid. Introduction to T&T Clark handbook to early Christian meals in the Greco-Roman world /
Meals are a highly significant element in the development of Christian identity. In this handbook Soham Al-Suadi and Peter-Ben Smit present chapters that situate early Christian meals in their broader context, with a focus on the core topics that will help us to understand Greco-Roman meal practice and how this relates to Christian origins. The issues covered include: the role of gender during meals; issues of monotheism and polytheism that arise from the structure of the meal; how sacrifice is understood in different meal practices; power dynamics during the meal and issues of inclusion and exclusion at meals. In addition to looking at the broader Hellenistic context the chapters explain the unique nature of Christian meals, and what this says about early Christian communities. The handbook is structured around the key primary resources, with the literary, historical, theological and philosophical aspects of these resources being considered in turn. The handbook begins with Hellenistic documents/authors before moving on to the New Testament material itself according to genre (Gospels, Acts, Letters, Apocalyptic Literature). Finally, there is a section on the wider resources that describe daily life in the period (medical documents, inscriptions). This structure enables the editors and contributors to present an analysis of the social values exhibited at meals and their significance for early Christian theology.
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Dinners and dining--Religious aspects--Christianity--To 1500. Dinners and dining--History--Greece--To 1500. Dinners and dining--History--Rome--To 1500. Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. Fasts and feasts--History. Sacred meals--History.