The Symposium of the 5,000

Starting from the use of the Greek word symposion in the Gospel of Mark (6:39), this article reads the feeding of the 5,000 as a public distribution of food, a well-known means of euergetism in the Greco-Roman world. Following recent work by Pauline Schmitt Pantel, Katherine Dunbabin, and John Donah...

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Main Author: Sick, David H. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2015]
In: The journal of theological studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 66, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-27
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Miracle of the bread / Symposion / Greece (Antiquity) / Roman Empire
RelBib Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
HC New Testament
TB Antiquity
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