TY  - BOOK
AU  - Finger,Reta Halteman
TI  - Of widows and meals: communal meals in the book of Acts 
SN  - 9780802830531
AV  - BS2625 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Grand Rapids, Michigan
PB  - William B. Eerdmans Pub.
KW  - Bible
KW  - Acts
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Dinners and dining in the Bible
N1  - 1 (pages 287.-310) and indexes; Introduction --; Stating the question : a middle-class bias against communal sharing? --; Economic sharing in Acts? a history of (mis)interpretation --; Naming the meal : agape, Eucharist, bread-breaking --; Meals on wheels for the widows? common meals versus poor relief --; From the top down : socio-economic structures of an agrarian society --; Jerusalem : productive city on a hill --; How the non-elite survived : social relations and community values --; Copycats? Essene communal life as model --; Never eat alone! food and meals as cultural symbols --; "A glutton and a drunkard" : Jesus and table fellowship --; "Upstairs, downstairs" : widows and other women in dining room and kitchen --; The intentional community : an exegesis of Acts 2:41-47 --; The widows' complaint : an exegesis of Acts 5:42-6:1-6 --; Daily commensality : a necessity then, impractical today?; 2
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip075/2006039041.html
ER  -