Meals in a social context : aspects of the communal meal in the Hellenistic and Roman world / edited by Inge Nielsen and Hanne Sigismund Nielsen.

Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, [1998], ©1998.

245 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Papers presented at a conference held Aug. 1995 at Fuglsang Manor in Denmark.

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

Includes bibliography: p. [206]-222 and indexes.