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From what I was taught, in those days and in that culture, they “reclined” at the table - meaning that the table was so short it was almost level with the floor and they had to lay down next to it. Obviously, DaVinci didn’t know this, but that doesn’t make any difference for the tablecloth.
If someone is dead, you tend to focus on the memory items. I still have some of my parents stuff.
But if I discovered they were alive, I’d drop the stuff and run to them.
God is alive.
Jesus is Risen.
God’s Spirit should living in us.
Or don’t we really believe that?
Since a table isn’t mentioned in scriptural descriptions of the Passover meal, and having seen how meals are traditionally conducted in the region, I’ve always seen Leonardo’s mural as creative license, made so all the faces can be displayed, the wall space filled, and the table reflecting how people would have a meal in fifteenth century Florence. In the Middle East people eat sitting around in a circle on a carpeted floor and use bread as a means to dip into common dishes. No table doesn’t necessarily mean no cloth for the food to have rested on. But relics in general ought to be looked at with some skepticism.
Yeah, right.
“I want to believe...”
NYer, thank you for posting this article. I had never heard of this item before.
Many Biblical and historical references indicate that people “reclined” while dining. It is common middle east practice to sit on a cloth to dine. With the food in the middle within arms reach.
It may not be a “table” cloth, but it could be a cloth that a traveler would use to recline and dine on.
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Here’s your answer. NO.
Jesus was a poor man who along with his band of apostles traveled the region with nothing but the clothes on their backs. He sent apostles to find the man holding the donkey and to tell them the Master needs his room that night.
I doubt they brought along a formal table cloth.
Being poor, a hand woven item like a tablecloth would have been a massive luxury for nearly anyone except the very rich, or perhaps the Pharisees and corrupt priests of the day (pretty much all of them)
Speculation of an item like this is nuts and does not mesh with Scripture.