Its Web presentation includes a comprehensive syllabus and a comprehensive bibliography. It is quite clear that, in that wonderful course, social and anthropological approaches have been incorporated. Again, however, “the ancient World” referred to is primarily the Greek/Roman world. On food and drink, eating and drinking in the worlds of the Bible so-called, focused works are not to be found. Of course, Greco-Roman practices may have relevance to the later biblical worlds, especially those of so-called
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