Decisive Meals
Title | Decisive Meals PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan MacDonald |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 201 |
Release | 2012-03-29 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 056745276X |
Decisive Meals discusses various aspects of meal traditions and their relevance in terms of boundaries between different groups in the context of first century Judaism and the early Christ-movement. The contributors discuss different communities at different times and places - under the same focus of common meals: The post-exilic community in Judaea, the Pauline communities in Asia Minor, as well as in the Roman dominated city of Caesarea and the Hellenistic Jewish community and the emerging rabbinical community - each time a community is affected through the sharing of meals, but how exactly? What are similar effects - where are the differences? This sheds light on power dynamics between rich and poor, well fed and hungry, but also between men and women. These questions will clarify how detailed exegesis is influenced by hermeneutical patterns and ideas about food, boundaries and power dynamics.
Decisive Meals
Title | Decisive Meals PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan MacDonald |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 201 |
Release | 2012-03-29 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567526011 |
An examination of power dynamics in the context of community meals with specific reference to the formation of identity in the early Christ-Movement.
Decisive Meals
Title | Decisive Meals PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan MacDonald |
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T&T Clark Handbook to Early Christian Meals in the Greco-Roman World
Title | T&T Clark Handbook to Early Christian Meals in the Greco-Roman World PDF eBook |
Author | Soham Al-Suadi |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 416 |
Release | 2019-02-21 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567669327 |
This handbook situates early Christian meals in their broader context, with a focus on the core topics that aid understanding of Greco-Roman meal practice, and how this relates to Christian origins. In addition to looking at the broader Hellenistic context, the contributors explain the unique nature of Christian meals, and what they reveal about early Christian communities and the development of Christian identity. Beginning with Hellenistic documents and authors before moving on to the New Testament material itself, according to genre - Gospels, Acts, Letters, Apocalyptic Literature - the handbook culminates with a section on the wider resources that describe daily life in the period, such as medical documents and inscriptions. The literary, historical, theological and philosophical aspects of these resources are also considered, including such aspects as the role of gender during meals; issues of monotheism and polytheism that arise from the structure of the meal; how sacrifice is understood in different meal practices; power dynamics during the meal and issues of inclusion and exclusion at meals.
Transcendence at the Table
Title | Transcendence at the Table PDF eBook |
Author | Julia Hurlow |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | 124 |
Release | 2020-10-29 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1725266822 |
When is the last time you sat down for a meal, to break bread with other people, and experienced peace? Throughout the arc of the scriptural narrative the word "shalom" is used as a way to speak of the way of peace. This word shalom embodies the depiction of creation where all things would glorify to the Triune God as well as bear the image of the Triune God who seamlessly embraces love and belonging. What if the universal space at a table is where shalom is experienced relationally? What if the longing people have for love and belonging can be extended through hospitality at a table? Unification can happen when invitations are extended to come, participate, and communicate at the table as a reflection of the Imago Dei.
Dining with John
Title | Dining with John PDF eBook |
Author | Esther Kobel |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 391 |
Release | 2011-11-11 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004217789 |
This book provides an analysis of the role of food, drink and meals in the Fourth Gospel, in the formation of early Christian identity, and of the historical circumstances in which Johannine meal practices may have developed.
Hope for a Tender Sprig
Title | Hope for a Tender Sprig PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew H. Patton |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Total Pages | 274 |
Release | 2017-01-30 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1575064782 |
Jehoiachin reigned a mere three months before Nebuchadnezzar took him into exile. He was one more Judean king who did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and his one recorded action as king was to surrender to the Babylonians. How significant can a king be whose reign ended when it had scarcely begun? Remarkably, unlike his uncles, Jehoahaz and Zedekiah, Jehoiachin did not disappear after his removal. Instead, he became the focus of ongoing prophetic discussion about the monarchy, his rehabilitation by Evil-Merodach was a turning point in the exile, and his offspring was eventually identified as the future of David’s line. The attention paid to Jehoiachin in the canon is the seed of Patton’s study. Why is there such interest in a king who was so insignificant politically and who—literarily speaking—is a rather flat character? What significance do particular biblical books attribute to him, and why? If we expand our purview to the Bible as a whole, another reason for investigating Jehoiachin emerges. The exile was one of the most significant events in the history of Israel. In its midst, Jehoiachin occupies an important position as both one of the last kings of Judah and one of the first exiles. Are there ways in which biblical writers capitalize on Jehoiachin’s unique position for their broader theological purposes? Going one step further, in Hope for a Tender Sprig, Patton pursues not only the diversity of the Bible but also its unity, suggesting that “salvation history” is useful for conceiving the unity of the Bible, especially when we are concerned with a historical figure such as Jehoiachin. If the various books of the Bible bear witness to one grand storyline, what is the significance of Jehoiachin within that story? In the light of the canon as a whole, can we synthesize the various perspectives on Jehoiachin and articulate his distinctive role in this grand narrative? These questions beg many others. What do we mean by “canon”? What grounds do we have for considering the canon as a unity, and why should we consider “salvation history” a valid paradigm for understanding it as a whole? What is the relationship of salvation history to “real” history, and is this even a valid question? What role will extrabiblical evidence (some of which concerns Jehoiachin directly) play in our investigation? Patton addresses these issues and arrives at a comprehensive biblical-theological reflection on Jehoiachin’s significance.