More on Meals

There is almost always something new and interesting to be found on Philip A. Harland's websites. This time, in adddition to a new picture of this guy, I found his website on Meals in the Greco-Roman World. A Seminar of the Society of Biblical Literature. It contains several interesting seminar papers, and at least four are directly dealing with the works of Philo. Alas several of them are only presently available as abstracts.
Consider these:Matthias Klinghardt, “The Therapeutae’s Dance.” (abstract)

Andrew McGowan, “The Food of the Therapeutae: A Thick Description.” (abstract)

Hal Taussig, “Ritual Perfection and/or Literary Idealization in Philo’s On the Contemplative Life and Other Greco-Roman Symposia.” (abstract)

Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, “Contrasting Banquets: A Literary Commonplace in Philo's On the Contemplative Life and Other Greco-Roman Symposia.”There should be a lot of information here relevant for both teaching and further research.