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This book provides three categories of investigation: 1) The
Typology and Context of the Greco-Roman Banquet, 2) Who Was at the
Greco-Roman Banquets, and 3) The Culture of Reclining. Together
these studies establish festive meals as an essential lens into
social formation in the Greco-Roman world.
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 the 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 volume provides a collection
of those studies in four areas of focus: The Typology of the
Greco-Roman Banquet; The Archeology of the Banquet; Who Was at the
Greco-Roman Banquets?; and The Culture of Reclining. Together they
establish festive meals as an essential lens into social formation
in the Greco-Roman world.
The Acts of the Apostles is not history. Acts was long thought to
be a first-century document, and its author Luke to be a disciple
of Paul-thus an eyewitness or acquaintance of eyewitnesses to
nascent Christianity. Acts was considered history, pure and simple.
But the Acts Seminar, a decade-long collaborative project by
scholars affiliated with the Westar Institute, concluded that dates
from the second century. That conclusion directly challenges the
view of Acts as history and raises a host of new questions,
addressed in this final report. The Acts Seminar began
deliberations in 2001, with the task of going through the canonical
Acts of the Apostles from beginning to end and evaluating it for
historical accuracy. Contributors include: Ruben Dupertuis,
Associate Professor of Religion, Trinity University, San Antonio,
Texas; Perry V. Kea, Associate Professor of Biblical Studies,
University of Indianapolis, Indiana; Nina E. Livesey, Assistant
Professor of Religious Studies, University of Oklahoma at Norman;
Dennis R. MacDonald, Professor of New Testament and Christian
Origins, Claremont School of Theology, California; Shelly Matthews,
Associate Professor of New Testament, Brite Divinity School, Texas
Christian University, Fort Worth; Milton Moreland, Associate
Professor of Religious Studies, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee;
Richard I. Pervo, retired, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Thomas E.
Phillips, Dean of Library and Information Services, Claremont
School of Theology, Claremont, California; Christine R. Shea,
Professor of Classics, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana;
William O. Walker, Jr., Jennie Farris Railey King Professor
Emeritus of Religion, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.
From Plato to the New Testament, banquets held an important place
in creating community, sharing values, and connecting with the
divine.
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