Meals in Early Judaism: Social Formation at the TableS. Marks, H. Taussig This is the first book about the meals of Early Judaism. As such it breaks important new ground in establishing the basis for understanding the centrality of meals in this pivotal period of Judaism and providing a framework of historical patterns and influences. |
Contents
Introduction | |
SECTION I | |
Thinking about the Ten Theses in Relation to the Passover Seder | |
Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism | |
Birkat Hamazon Navigates New Ground | |
Performing Myth Performing Midrash at Rabbinic Meals | |
The Pivotal Place of the Therapeutae in Understanding the Meals | |
A Thick Description | |
The Therapeutaes Dance | |
A Literary Commonplace in Philos On | |
Placing This Study of Jewish Meals in the Larger | |
Bibliography | |
Author Index | |
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