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Deity and diet : the dilemma of sacrificial food at Corinth / Derek Newton.

By: Newton, Derek, 1949-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Journal for the study of the New Testament: 169.Publisher: Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1850759324Subject(s): Bible. Corinthians, 1st, VIII-X -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Sacrifice in the Bible | Food in the Bible | Fasts and feasts in the Bible | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Greece -- Corinth | Cults -- Greece -- Corinth | Cults -- Indonesia -- Sulawesi SelatanBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [400]-415) and indexes.
Contents:
General survey of scholarly approaches to 1 Corinthians 8-10 -- A contemporary case study : the issue of cultic ritual and communal eating among Torajanese people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia -- The current state of archaeological investigation in the Corinth area : its significance for study of 1 Corinthians 8-10 -- The nature and perceived significance of images in the Greco-Roman world -- The form and perceived function of food in Greco-Roman cultic contexts -- Some implications for exegesis of 1 Corinthians 8-10.

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral).

Includes bibliographical references (pages [400]-415) and indexes.

General survey of scholarly approaches to 1 Corinthians 8-10 -- A contemporary case study : the issue of cultic ritual and communal eating among Torajanese people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia -- The current state of archaeological investigation in the Corinth area : its significance for study of 1 Corinthians 8-10 -- The nature and perceived significance of images in the Greco-Roman world -- The form and perceived function of food in Greco-Roman cultic contexts -- Some implications for exegesis of 1 Corinthians 8-10.

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