This book deals with the Paul’s attitude to the social dynamics of Pauline community’s practice of the common meal. A study of Paul’s attitude to the common meals would help us to see as to how far Paul could identify with the socio-cultural practices of first century CE Greco-Roman world and to what extent he dissociated himself from such contexts by virtue of his Christian convictions. The objective of Paul in the continuation of common meal is the social integration of diverse social units of the church thereby strengthening the community life of believers in the Lord.
The work is a valuable compendium of research on meals in Judaic and Greco-Roman antiquity.
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