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From Symposium to Eucharist: The Banquet in the Early Christian World by Dennis E. Smith Fortress, Minneapolis, 2003. 411 pp. $25.00. ISBN 08006-3489-6

BASED ON OVER TWENTY YEARS of the author's research, publications, and scholarly leadership, this book is the work to which all need turn with regard to early Christian meals. The way Dennis Smith combines a straightforward style with complex and clear methodologies makes the book accessible and durable as both a reference work and an o...

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