At this year’s meeting the MGRW seminar invites to three sessions. We are looking forward to a rich program.

11/19/2023
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: 214B (Meeting Room Level) – San Antonio Convention Center

Theme: Meals in Late Antiquity

Chan Sok Park, College of Wooster, Presiding (4 min)

Orit Malka, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Koinonia and Ḥavurah: The Communal Meal in Rabbinic Literature (30 min)
Tag(s): Rabbinic Literature (Early Jewish Literature – Rabbinic Literature), History of Judaism (History & Culture), Greco-Roman Period (History & Culture)

Lillian Larsen, University of Redlands
Monastic Meal Practice: Re-“modeling” Late Antique Dining Norms (30 min)
Tag(s): Church History and Ecclesiology (Other), Greco-Roman Period (History & Culture)

Discussion (13 min)

Andrew Bowden, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
The Social Implications of the Jewish Authorities’ Consumption of Foods in Matthew 23 (30 min)
Tag(s): Gospels – Matthew (Biblical Literature – New Testament), Gospels (Biblical Literature – New Testament), New Testament (Biblical Literature – New Testament)

Carlos Garcia, University of Notre Dame
Jubilees: A Window into Second Temple Meal Tradition and Theology (30 min)
Tag(s): Greco-Roman Period (History & Culture), Deuterocanonical Works (Biblical Literature – Deuterocanonical Works), Jewish Pseudepigrapha (Early Jewish Literature – Jewish Pseudepigrapha)

Discussion (13 min)

11/18/2023
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: 216B (Meeting Room Level) – San Antonio Convention Center

Theme: Meals in the Greco-Roman World: A Retrospective after Two Decades

Jan Heilmann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Presiding (5 min)

Matthias Klinghardt, Technische Universität Dresden, Panelist (20 min)

Soham Al-Suadi, Universität Rostock, Panelist (20 min)

Andrew McGowan, Yale Divinity School, Panelist (20 min)

Joint Session With: Redescribing Christian Origins, Meals in the Greco-Roman World
11/20/2023
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Room: 007A (River Level) – San Antonio Convention Center

Theme: Redescribing the Last Supper

Shaily Patel, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Presiding (10 min)

Soham Al-Suadi, Universität Rostock
Redescribing Early Christian Meals: The Approach of SBL’s Meals in the Greco-Roman World Seminar (20 min)
Tag(s): New Testament (Biblical Literature – New Testament), Gospels (Biblical Literature – New Testament)

Andrew McGowan, Yale Divinity School
Last Supper Story and Eucharistic Prayer Revisited (20 min)
Tag(s): Greco-Roman Period (History & Culture), Church History and Ecclesiology (Other)

Chan Sok Park, College of Wooster and Jan Heilmann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Redescribing the Last Supper Narratives in the Synoptic Gospels and in 1 Corinthians 11 (20 min)
Tag(s): Gospels (Biblical Literature – New Testament), New Testament (Biblical Literature – New Testament)

Robyn Faith Walsh, University of Miami
Gospel Anonymity and Pauline Erasure in the Last Supper Narrative (20 min)
Tag(s): Gospels (Biblical Literature – New Testament), Pauline Epistles (Biblical Literature – New Testament)

Discussion (60 min)