CEREMONY and MEALS

Arbesmann, Rudolf

1949 "Fasting and Prophecy in Pagan and Christian Antiquity," Traditio 7:1-71

Arnott, Margaret L.

1973 Gastronomy. The Anthropology of Food and Food Habits. The Hague: Mouton Publishers (grape wine; monophagy; food-energy; processing; indigenous foods; food and folk beliefs; bread*)

Aune, David

1978 "Septem Sapientium Convivium." Pp. 51-105 in H. D. Betz, ed., Plutarch's Ethical Writings and Early Christian Literature. Leiden: E.J. Brill

Bahr, Gordon

1970 "The Seder of Passover and the Eucharistic Words," NovT 12: 181-202. Reprinted pp. 473-94 in H.A. Fischel, ed., Essays in Greco-Roman and Related Talmudic Literature. New York: KTAV, 1977

Baldson, J.P.V.D.

1969 Life and Leisure in Ancient Rome. New York: McGraw-Hill

Bartchy, Scott

1992 "Table Fellowship." Pp. 796-800 in Joel Green and Scot McKnight, eds., Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press

Blümner, Hugo

1893 The Home Life of the Ancient Greeks. London: Cassell and Company

Boak, A.E.R.

1937 "The Organization of Gilds in Greco-Roman Egypt," TAPA 68: 212-20

Bottero, J.

1985 "The Cuisine of Ancient Mesopotamia," BA 48: 36-47

Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme

1960 The Physiology of Taste. New York: Dover Publications (gastronomy and gourmandizing; obssity and thinness, fasting)

Broshi, Magen

1986 "The Diet of Palestine in the Roman Period - Introductory Notes," The Israel Museum Journal 5: 41-56 .

Brothwell, Don R.

1988 "Foodstuffs, Cooking, and Drugs," Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean. Greece and Rome. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1.247-61

Brothwell, Don and Patricia Brothwell

1969 Food in Antiquity. A Survey of the Diet of Early Peoples. New York: Frederick A. Praeger (from meat to drink; diet and disease; both are trained anthropologists, with interest in dental and skeletal data; much stuff from cultural perspective)

Bruns, Gerda

1970 "Küchenwesen und Mahlzeiten." Pp. in F. Matz and H.G. Buchholz, eds., Archeologia Homerica II. Chapter Q. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht

Burkert, Walter

1991 "Oriental Symposia: Contrasts and Parallels." Pp. 7-24 in William J. Slater, ed., Dining in a Classical Context. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press

Chilton, Bruce

1992 "The Purity of the Kingdom as Conveyed in Jesus' Meals," SBLASP 1992. 473-88

Clarke, W.M.

1992 "Jewish Table Manners in the Cena Trimalchionis, ClassJourn 3: 257-63

Cohen, Yehudi A.

1961 "Food and Its Vicissitudes: A Cross-Cultural Study of Sharing and Nonsharing." Pp. 312-50 in Social Structure and Personality. A Casebook. New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston

Cooper, Eugene

1986 "Chinese Table Manners: You Are How You Eat," Human Organization 45:179ish

Corley, Kathleen

1989 "Were the Women around Jesus Really Prostitutes? Women in the Context of Greco-Roman Meals," SBLASP 1989: 487-521
1993 Private Women, Public Meals, Social Conflict and Women in the Synoptic Tradition. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers

Crossan, John D.

1991 "Open Healing and Open Eating. Jesus as a Jewish Cynic?" BibRes 36: 6-18

Curren, Patricia

19?? Grace Before Meals: Food Rituals and Body Discipline in Convent Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press

Curtis, Robert I.

1979 "The Garum Shop of Pompeii," Cronache Pompeiane 5: 5-32

D'Arms, John H.

1984 "Control, Companionship, and Clientela: Some Social Functions of the Roman Communal Meal," Echos du monde classique/Classical Views 3 n.s.: 327-48

Davies, R.W.

1971 "The Roman Military Diet," Britannia 3: 122-42.7

Delcor, M.

1969 "Repas cultuels esséniens et thérapeutes," RevQ 6: 401-25

de Meeus, X.

1961 "Composition de Lc. XIV et Genre Symposiaque," ETL 37: 847-70.

Donceel-Vouté, P. H. E.

1993 "'Coenaculum'--La salle à l'étage du locus 30 à Khirbet Qumrân sur la Mer Morte," Res Orientales 4: 61-84

Douglas, Mary

1966 Purity and Danger. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
1974 "Food as an Art Form," Studio International 188:88ish
1975 "Deciphering a Meal." Pp. 249-275 in Implicit Meanings. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
1982a Natural Symbols. New York: Pantheon Books.
1982b "Food as a System of Communication." Pp. 82-124 in In the Active Voice. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
1984 Food in the Social Order. Studies of Food and Festivities in Three American Communities. New York: Russell Sage

Douglas, Mary and Baron Isherwood

1979 The World of Goods. New York: Basic Books Inc.

Dow, Sterling and David H. Gill

1965 "The Greek Cult Table," AJA 69: 103-14

Dubish, J.

1986 "Culture Enters Through the Kitchen: Women, Food and Social Boundaries in Rural Greece." Pp. 195-214 in her Gender and Power in Rural Greece. Princeton: Princeton University Press

Dunbabin, K.M.D.

1993 "Wine and water at the Roman convivium," JournRomArch 6:116-41

Esler, Philip Francis,

1987 "Table Fellowship." Pp. 71-109 in his Community and Gospel in Luke-Acts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Evans, E.

1990 "Dining with the Ancients," Archeology 43: 55-61

Farb, Peter and Armelagos

1980 Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Feeley-Harnik, Gillian

1981 The Lord's Table. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Fenton, Alexander and Refor M. Owen

1981 Food in Perspective. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Ethnological Food Research, Cardiff, Wales, 1977. Edinburgh: John Donal Publishers, Inc.

Fieldhouse, Paul

1986 Food and Nutrition: Customs and Culture. London: Croom Helm (food ideology; social functions of foods; religion-cultisim-foods; myths-taboos and foods)

Friedländer, Ludwig

1968 Roman Life and Manners under the Early Empire. 4. Vols. New York: Barnes and Noble

Gardner, E.A.

1931 "Food and Drink, Meals, Cooking, and Entertainments." Pp. 639-43 in Leonard Whibley, ed., 4th ed., A Companion to Greek Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Giacosa, Ilaria Gozzini

1992 A Taste of Ancient Rome. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Gowers, Emily

1993 The Loaded Table. Representations of Food in Roman Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Gyeselen, R., ed.

1992 Banquets D'Orient. Res Orientalis 4. Bures-sur-Yvette: Groupe pour l'Etude de la Civilisation du Moyen-Orient. Leuven: Peeters

Hamel, Gildas

1990 "Daily Bread." Pp. 8-56 in Poverty and Charity in Roman Palestine. The First Three Centuries. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press

Harris, Marvin

1985 The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig. Riddles in Food and Culture. New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc.

Harris, Marvin and Eric B. Ross, eds.

19?? Food and Evolution: Toward a Theory of Human Food Habits. Philadelphia: Temple University Press

Harrison, G.A. and J.C. Waterlow, eds.

1990 Diet and Disease in Traditional and Developing Societies. Society for the Study of Human Biology Symposium Series. Vol. 30. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Jenks, Alan W.

1992 "Eating and Drinking in the Old Testament," ABD 2.250-54

Jeremias, Joachim

1968 The Eucharistic Words of Jesus (3rd edition). Philadelphia: Fortress Press.

Jewett, Robert

1993 "Tenement Churches and Communal Meals in the Early Church: The Implications of a Form-Critical Analysis of 2 Thessalonians 3:10," Biblical Research 38: 23-43

Kane, J. P.

1975 "The Mithraic Cult Meal in Its Greek and Roman Environment." Pp. 313-51 in John R. Hinnells, ed., vol. 2; Mithraic Studies. Proceedings of the First International Congress of Mithraic Studies. Manchester: Manchester University Press

Karris, Robert J.

1985 "The Theme of Food." Pp. 47-78 in Robert J. Karris, Luke: Artist and Theologian. New York: Paulist Press.

Kennedy, Charles A.

1987 "The Cult of the Dead in Corinth." Pp. 227-36 in John Marks and Robert Good (eds.), Love and Death in the Ancient Near East. Guilford, CT: Four Quarters Publishing Company

King, Philip

1988 "The Marzeah Amos Denounces -- Using Archaeology to Interpret a Biblical Text," BAR 15,4: 34-44

Kleberg, Tönnes

1957 Hôtels, restaurants et cabarets dans l'antiquité romaine. Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells

Kuhn, K.G.

1958 "The Lord's Supper and the Communal Meal at Qumran." Pp. 63-93 in Krister Stendahl, ed., The Scrolls and the New Testament. London: S.C.M.

Lavin, Irving

1962 "The House of the Lord: Aspects of the Role of Palace Triclinia in the Architecture of Late Antiquity," ArtB 44: 1-27

Lévy-Strauss, Claude

1968 The Origin of Table Manners. New York: Harper and Row
1969 The Raw and the Cooked. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Lewis, Theodore J.

1992 "Banqueting Hall/House," ABD 1.581-82

Leyerle, Blake

1993 "Clement of Alexandria and Miss Manners: On the Importance of Table Etiquette." Unpublished paper delivered at the North American Patristics Society

Lowy, S.

1958 "The Motivation of Fasting in Talmudic Literature," JJS 9: 19-38

Malina, Bruce

1981 The New Testament World. Insights from Cultural Anthropology. Atlanta: John Knox Press
1986 "Testing the Models: The Case of Fasting." Pp. 185-204 in his Christian Origins and Cultural Anthropology. Atlanta: John Knox Press

Malina, Bruce and Richard Rohrbaugh

1992 Social-Science Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels. Minneapolis: Fortress Press

Mau, A.

1900 "Convivium," PW 4. 1201-08

McGovern, Patrick C., Stuart Fleming and Solomon Katz

1995 The Origns and ancient History of Wine. Luxembourg: Gordon and Breach

Mennell, Stephen

1985 All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the Present. Oxford: Basil Blackwell

Meyer, Ben F., ed.

1993 One Loaf, One Cup. Ecumenical Studies of 1 Cor 11 and Other Eucharistic Texts. New Gospel Studies 6

Milgrom, Jacob

1963 "The Biblical Diet Laws as an Ethical System: Food and Faith," Interpretation 17:288-301

Milgrom, Jacob and Moshe Herr

1971 "Fasting and Fast Days," Encyclopaedia Judaica 6:1189-95

Moxnes, Halvor

1987 "Meals and the New Community in Luke," Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok 51: 158-67.

Muddiman, John

1992 "Fast, Fasting," Anchor Bible Dictionary 2.773-76

Murray, Oswyn

1991 Sympotica. A Symposium on the Symposium. Oxford: Clarendon Press

Neusner, Jacob

*1982 "Two Pictures of the Pharisees: Philosophical Circle or Eating Club," Anglican Theological Review 64: 525-38

Neyrey, Jerome H.

                    1986a "Body Language in 1 Corinthians: the Use of Anthropological Models for Understanding Paul and His Opponents." Pp. 129-170 in                      John H. Elliott (ed.), Social-Scientific Criticism of the New Testament and Its Social World. Semeia 35
                    1986b "The Idea of Purity in Mark." Pp. 91-128 in John H. Elliott (ed.), Social-Scientific Criticism of the New Testament and Its Social                         World. Semeia 35
                    1988a "Symbolism in Mark 7," Forum 4/3: 63-92
                    1988b "Unclean, Common, Polluted and Taboo," Forum 4/4: 72-82 1991 "Ceremonies in Luke-Acts: The Case of Meals and Table                       Fellowship." Pp. 361-87 in his The Social World of Luke-Acts. Models for Interpretation. Peabody, MA: Hendrikson Publishers

Norbeck, Edward

1977 "A Sanction for Authority: Etiquette." Pp. ?? in Raymond D. Fogelson and Richard N. Adams, eds., The Anthropology of Power. New York: Academic Press

Oswalt, Wendell H.

1976 An Anthropological Analysis of Food-Getting Technology. New York: Wiley

Pearson, T.A.

1989 "Biblical Foods and Eating Customs," BibT 27: 372-78

Pelto, Gretel H., et al., eds.

1989 Research Methods in Nutritional Anthropology. Food and Drink Nutritional Bulletin Supplement, vol. 11. Tokyo: United Nations University Press

Pervo, Richard I.

1985 "Wisdom and Power: Petronius' Satyricon and the Social World of Early Christianity," Anglican Theological Review 67: 307-328
1994 "Panta Koina: The Feeding Stories in the Light of Economic Data and Social Practice." Pp. 163-94 in Lukas Bormann, et al., eds., Religious Propaganda and Missionary Competition in the New Testament World. Leiden: E.J. Brill

Pilch, John J.

1993 "The Necessities of Life: Eating and Drinking," BibToday 31: 231-37

Pitt-Rivers, Julian

1968 "The Stranger, the Guest and the Hostile Host: Introduction to the Study of the Laws of Hospitality." Pp. 13-30 in J.G. Peristiany, ed., Contributions to Mediterranean Sociology. Paris, Moulton and Co.

Pope, Marvin

1981 "The Cult of the Dead at Ugarit." Pp. 159-79 in Gordon D. Young, ed., Ugarit in Retrospect. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns

Purser, L.C.

1890 "Cena." Pp. 391-97 in William Smith, William Wayte, and G.E. Marindin, eds., A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. London: John Murray

Reed, Stephen A.

1992 "Bread," ABS 1.777-80

Schiffman, Lawrence H.

1979 "Communal Meals at Qumran," Revue de Qumran 10: 45-56.

Schramm, Alan W.

1992 "Meal Customs (Jewish)," ABD 4.648-50

Segal, Alan

1986 "Romans 7 and Jewish Dietary Law," Sciences Religieuses/ Studies in Religion 15: 361-74.

Shea, William H.

1992 "Famine," ABD 2.769-73

Shero, L.R.

1923 "The Cena in Roman Satire," CP 18: 126-43

Slater, William J.

1990 Dining in a Classical Context. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press

Smith, Dennis

1980 Social Obligation in the Context of Communal Meals. Unpublished Th.D. thesis: Harvard University
1981 "Meals and Morality in Paul and His World," SBLASP 1981:319-39
1987 "Table Fellowship as a Literary Motif in the Gospel of Luke," JBL 106: 613-38
1989 "The Historical Jesus at Table," SBLASP 1989: 466-86
1992 "Meal Customs (Greco-Roman)," ADB 4.650-53

Soler, Jean

1979 "The Dietary Prohibitions of the Hebrews," New York Review of Books June 14: 24-30. Reprinted pp. 126-38 in Robert Forster and Orest Ranum (eds.), Food and Drink in History. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979

Steele, E. Springs

1984 "Luke 11:37-54 -- A Modified Hellenistic Symposium?" JBL 103: 379-94

Stein, S.

1957 "The Influence of Symposia Literature on the Literary Form of the Pesah Haggadah," JJS 8: 13-44

Tannahill, Reay

1988 Food in History. New York: Crown Publishers Inc (from pre-history, through Greek, Roman, Arab, etc. periods; concern with clean/unclean foods)

Theissen, Gerd

1982 "Social Integration and Sacramental Activity: An Analysis of 1 Cor 11:17-34." Pp. 145-74 in The Social Setting of Pauline Christianity. Essays on Corinth. Philadelphia: Fortress Press

Visser, Margaret

1991 The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities and Meaning of Table Manners. New York: Penguin (check index for materials on ancient Greece, Rome and Jews)

Widdowson, John D. A.

1981 "Food and Traditional Verbal Modes in the Social Control of Children." Pp. 385ish in Alexander Fenton and Trefor Owen, eds., Food in Perspective. Edinburgh: John Donald

Wimmer, Joseph

1980 The Meaning and Motivation of Fasting According to the Synoptic Gospels. Rome: Pontifical Gregorian University

Wood, Roy C.

1995 The Sociology of the Meal. Edinburgh: University Press