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Commensality

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Com`men`sal´i`ty
n.1.Fellowship at table; the act or practice of eating at the same table.


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Contemporary and interdisciplinary biblical scholarship has helped widen our knowledge of what open commensality meant in that social context.
Conspicuous in their absence: women in early christianity by Bellan-Boyer, Lisa / Cross Currents
Through the daily ritual of commensality it is shared among the folk.
Rice as Self: Japanese Identities Through Time by Griffiths, Owen / Pacific Affairs
The requirement of avoiding blood was a key element in ensuring the unity of the early Christian communities made up of Jews and Gentiles: it established the conditions that made commensality possible.
Drinking blood at a kosher Eucharist? The sound of scholarly silence by Cahill, Michael J. / Biblical Theology Bulletin
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