"A feast is the best image of happiness". Images of the feast in theology and culture

This book is designed as a grateful offense of Natalia Leonidovna Trauberg, who believed that "the paradise rivers flowed milk, water, wine and beer" and how few people cleaned with grace the most sophisticated times. It was she who once suggested gathering and talking about food in culture. The authors of the collection - biblebists, historians of religions, cultureologists, ethnographers, art historians and literary critics - tried to present several possible approaches to one of the most ancient cultural archetypes, and more precisely to arrange from the diverse offenses "Day of Understanding", collecting divided people and epochs around a common table, where they are Waiting for "simple and wonderful substances"