Introduction / Inge Nielsen and Hanne Sigismund Nielsen -- Salt, Fish, and the Sea in the Roman Empire / Peter Orsted -- 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 Greaco 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 Social Meeting: Paul's Argument in 1 Cor. 11.17-34 / Geert Hallback -- Regulating Fellowship in the Communal Meal: Early Jewish and Christian Evidence / L. Michael White
Notes
"The present book contains the revised versions of most of the papers given at this conference" -- intro. p. [9]
Papers presented at an international conference held in August 1995 at Fuglsang Manor in Denmark