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Roman Diet and Meat Consumption: Reassessing Elite Access to Meat in 1 Corinthians 8 and 10

Tite, Philip L.·2019·Journal for the Study of the New Testament
DOI 10.1177/0142064x19873523
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A persistent exegetical tradition exists linking the Pauline controversy over the consumption of idol meat in the Corinthian correspondence to social and economic assumptions about the Roman world. Specifically, there is the assumption that access to meat was limited to the elite within the Roman world. According to this exegetical tradition, the lower classes only had access to meat through public religious festivals or as derivative through cultic sacrifice by means of the marketplace, resulting in the view that non-elites were sustained on a diet of legumes, grains and wine. Roman access to meat along such class demarcations, furthermore, is founded upon an economic dichotomy of elite and non-elite. This article challenges these social assumptions regarding meat consumption in, especially, Corinth by engaging recent scholarship that re-evaluates Roman diet in regard to access to meat and other animal products. Specifically, methods in archaeological science (especially stable isotope analysis) are used to supplement literary reassessments. What arises is a new picture of Roman diet, wherein meat consumption was not limited to the elite, but was prevalent in nearly all levels of Roman society. With this fresh perspective on Roman dietary practices, Paul’s comments in 1 Corinthians 8 and 10 must be re-evaluated.

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  • Paul wishes to remove the ambiguity from the different commensal models and to promote the shared group identity of his associations.

    “Paul wishes to remove the ambiguity from the different commensal models and to promote the shared group identity of his associations (Tite 2019, p. 212).”

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Authors
Tite, P. L.
Affiliations
University of Washington (US)
Corresponding author
Tite, Philip L.
ORCID
Tite, Philip L.
Venue
Journal for the Study of the New Testament
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2019-11-19
Volume
42
Issue
2
Pages
185-222
ISSN
  • 0142-064X (ISSN-L)
  • 1745-5294
DOI
10.1177/0142064x19873523
OpenAlex
W2990457919
Cited by
6
References
53
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2
FWCI
6.13
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Journal for the Study of the New Testament (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Biblical Studies and Interpretation
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Classics › Classical Antiquity Studies
  • Social Sciences › Archeology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
Keywords
Roman diet, meat consumption, social class, Corinth, stable isotope analysis, animal products, New Testament exegesis

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