Papers presented at a conference held Aug. 1995 at Fuglsang Manor in Denmark. Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-222) and indexes.
Contents:
Salt, fish and the sea in the Roman Empire / Peter Ørsted -- The Roman family at dinner / Keith Bradley -- Roman children at mealtimes / Hanne Sigismund Nielsen -- Eating with the dead: the Roman funerary banquet / Hugh Lindsay -- Ut Graeco more biberetur: Greeks and Romans on the dining couch / Katherine Dunbabin -- Royal banquets: the development of royal banquets and banqueting halls from Alexander to the Tetrarchs / Inge Nielsen -- The sixth hour is the mealtime for scholars: Jewish meals in the Roman world / David Noy -- The common meal in the Qumran-Essene communities / Per Bilde -- Sacred meal and sacred meeting: Paul's argument in 1 Cor. 11.17-34 / Geert Hallbäck --Regulating fellowship in the communal meal: early Jewish and Christian evidence / L. Michael White
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