From Symposium to Eucharist: The Banquet in the Early Christian World. By Dennis E. Smith. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003. 352 pages. Paper. $25.00.
What did one do at festal meals in antiquity? And what did such meals mean to the participants? That is, what were meals as social institutions in the ancient world? How does that impact our interpretation of meals and the Eucharist in early Christianity? This is the series of questions that Dennis E. Smith, Professor of New ...