TY - JOUR
T1 - A Symposiastic Background to James
AU - Smit, P.B.A.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0028688511000300
DO - 10.1017/S0028688511000300
M3 - Article
SN - 0028-6885
VL - 58
SP - 105
EP - 122
JO - New Testament Studies
JF - New Testament Studies
ER -