The Cultural and Theological Significance of Meals and Table Fellowship in First-Century Palestine
Language: English
Published by Colloquium Verlag, 2025
- Softcover
- New
Seller: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.California Books
AbeBooks seller since October 27, 2023
Condition: New
£ 17.69
Quantity: Over 20 available
Add to basketSeller Inventory # I-9798232211554
- Title
- The Cultural and Theological Significance of Meals and Table Fellowship in First-Century Palestine
- Author
- Freeman, Jordan
- Publisher
- Colloquium Verlag
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798232211554
This groundbreaking book invites readers on a captivating journey through the dining rooms, banquet halls, and humble kitchens of first-century Palestine, revealing how the seemingly ordinary act of breaking bread carried extraordinary cultural and religious significance. From lavish Herodian banquets to simple village suppers, from Passover seders to the Last Supper, meals served as powerful theaters where religious identities were expressed, social boundaries were negotiated, and theological convictions became embodied experiences.
Drawing on archaeological discoveries, ancient texts, and anthropological insights, this book vividly reconstructs how different communities approached the dining table. We witness Pharisees meticulously maintaining purity at their meals, Essenes dining in solemn hierarchical order, and Jesus shocking his contemporaries by sharing table fellowship with tax collectors and sinners. The seemingly innocuous question of "who eats what with whom" emerges as a profound window into the cultural tensions and religious innovations of this pivotal era.
Readers will discover how stone vessels preserved ritual purity, how seating arrangements encoded social status, and how blessing prayers transformed ordinary bread into vehicles for divine connection. The book explores how meal practices both united and divided-serving simultaneously as expressions of cultural identity and opportunities for boundary crossing-all against the complex backdrop of Roman imperial rule.
This accessible yet scholarly work illuminates not only what ancient people ate, but how they ate it-the social customs, religious rituals, and theological meanings encoded in every shared meal. In doing so, it offers fresh perspective on the origins of Jewish and Christian traditions while revealing timeless insights into how communities express their deepest values through the universal experience of sharing food.
For anyone interested in biblical studies, ancient history, religious rituals, or the cultural significance of food, this book offers a feast of insights into how ordinary dining tables became extraordinary stages where the sacred and secular, the divine and human, came together through the simple yet profound act of breaking bread in community.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
California Books
Miami, FL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since October 27, 2023
Shipping rates within U.S.A.
| Item | 3 to 7 business days | 2 to 5 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 0.00 | £ 8.96 |
Payment methods
Store description
We have 20 years experience selling books worldwide! Friendly customer support. Your satisfaction guaranteed!
Specialty
All authorized categoriesSeller's business information
Miramar International Services LLC
FL, U.S.A.
Right of withdrawal
If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.
Information regarding the right of withdrawal
Statutory right to withdraw
You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.
To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
Effects of withdrawal
If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).
We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.
We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.
We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.
We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.
You shall send back the goods or hand them over to California Books, Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A., without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.
Exceptions to the right of withdrawal
The right of withdrawal does not apply to:
- The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
- The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.