A Symposiastic Background to James

P.B.A. Smit

doi:10.1017/S0028688511000300

A Symposiastic Background to James

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The Epistle of James is not commonly seen in relation to early Christian common meals. At the same time, the work is preoccupied with the common life of an early Christian community, which in turn was, generally speaking, closely related to the way in which it celebrated its meals. In other words, ethics, ecclesiology, and etiquette were closely related. Based on this consideration, this essay attempts to relate aspects of the epistle to symposiastic conventions as they were known in the first-century Mediterranean world. © 2011 Cambridge University Press.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	105-122
Journal	New Testament Studies
Volume	58
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0028688511000300
Publication status	Published - 2011

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