T&T Clark handbook to early Christian meals in the Greco-Roman world
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction to T&T Clark Handbook to Early Christian Meals in the Greco-Roman World -- Part One: Authors & Collections -- Chapter 1: Meals in the Works of Philo of Alexandria -- Introduction -- 1 Meals in De Vita Contemplativa -- Concludi...
| Subtitles: | Handbook to early Christian meals in the Greco-Roman world |
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: T&T Clark handbook to early Christian meals in the Greco-Roman world] (2020) (Klauck, Hans-Josef, 1946 -)
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| Series/Journal: | T&T Clark Handbooks Ser
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Church
/ Meal
/ Eating and drinking customs
/ Historical background
/ New Testament
/ Eucharist
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| Summary: | Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction to T&T Clark Handbook to Early Christian Meals in the Greco-Roman World -- Part One: Authors & Collections -- Chapter 1: Meals in the Works of Philo of Alexandria -- Introduction -- 1 Meals in De Vita Contemplativa -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Dining with Dignity: Josephus's Rhetorical Use of the Essene Common Meals -- Introduction -- 1 Josephus's description of the Essene common meals -- 2 Josephus's purpose with the Essene common meals -- 3 Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Plutarch's Septem sapientium convivium: An Example of Greco-Roman Sympotic Literature -- Introduction: Genre and content - An overview -- 1 The order of the depicted banquet and symposion -- 2 Insights into Plutarch's thoughts about the ideal banquet and, respectively, symposion -- 3 Social status and symbolic communication within the context of the meal -- 4 Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Meals at Qumran: Literary Fiction, Liturgical Anticipation, or Performed Ritual? -- Introduction: Studying meals in texts from Qumran: Two temptations -- 1 Communal meals as a literary motif in Qumran texts -- 2 The idea of the meal in the World to Come at Qumran? -- 3 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Hermetic Texts in Nag Hammadi Codex VI -- Introduction -- 1 NHC VI.6 and VI.7 within the composition of the codex -- 2 Evidence for a 'cultic meal' in the background of the hermetic texts of NHC VI? -- 3 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Meals in the Apostolic Fathers -- Introduction -- 1 Survey -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: 'Prepare Yourself.' Spatial Rhetoric in Rabbinic and Synoptic Meal Parables -- Introduction -- 1 Rabbinic meal etiquette -- 2 Spatial dimension: Material context and rhetoric 3 Meal parables and spatial rhetoric -- 4 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part Two: Gospel Tradition -- Chapter 8: The Gospel of Mark - The Commitment of the 'Unleavened' to the Kingdom of God Agenda of Jesus -- Introduction -- 1 The Meal of the Feast of the 'Unleavened (bread)' and the 'Leaven' -- 2 The interpretative statement after drinking out of the cup (Mk 14.23-34) -- 3 The historical date of Jesus's last meal -- 4 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9: Meals in the Gospel of Luke -- Introduction and overview -- 1 Meal, symposium and table talk -- 2 Meals and social formation -- 3 The meal as utopia: The eschatological meal -- 4 Lack of a literary concept -- 5 The cup that is poured out (Lk. 22.20) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10: The Primary Role of Meals in Matthew's Construction of Diasporic Identity -- Introduction: The basic synergy of Matthew and meals -- 1 The plethora of Matthean texts intersecting with ancient meal codes -- 2 Major Matthean themes intersecting with meal motifs -- 3 Matthew's construction of diasporic identity -- 4 Summarizing twentieth- and twenty-first-century diaspora theory -- 5 The expanded Matthean diaspora -- 6 Conclusion: Meals' feast of diasporic belonging in Matthew -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11: 'Let Anyone Who is Thirsty Come to Me, and Let the One Who Believes in Me Drink': The Johannine Jesus as the True Provider of Earthly and Heavenly Nourishment -- Introduction and overview: Meal scenes and metaphorical talk about food and drink in the Fourth Gospel -- 1 The role of hosts and guests in the Fourth Gospel -- 2 Conclusion: The provider of food par excellence evokes belief in his audience -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12: Interpretations of the Eucharist in the Gospel of Philip -- 1 Eating and the Eucharist in the Nag Hammadi codices and related documents 2 The Eucharist in the Gospel of Philip -- 3 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part Three: Acts -- Chapter 13: Meals as a Literary Motif in Acts of the Apostles -- Introduction -- 1 Acts 2.42-47 as a paradigmatic text -- 2 'Breaking bread in their homes': The communal meal and the house -- 3 The house, the meal and community formation -- 4 Gender and meals in acts -- 5 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography (with selected annotations) -- Chapter 14: The Contribution of Meal Scenes to the Narrative Theology of Acts of Paul -- Meal scenes in Acts of Paul: Introduction and overview -- 1 Meals in Acts of Paul and Thecla: Ascetic communal meals as opposed to pagan banquets -- 2 Miracle and meals for the needy in Myra -- 3 Refusal to take part in cultic meals as a source of conflict with mainstream religion and society in Sidon -- 4 A meal as part of a Christian nocturnal initiation in Ephesus -- 5 Paul's last supper in Corinth: A bread miracle and 'feasting according to the custom of the fasting' -- 6 Conclusion: multiple meanings of communal meals in Acts of Paul -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 15: Eucharists and other Meals in the Apocryphal Acts of John and Acts of Andrew -- Introduction -- 1 The Acts of John -- 2 Acts of Andrew -- 3 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 16: Meals in Joseph and Aseneth -- Introduction -- 1 Narrated meals in Joseph and Aseneth -- 2 The so-called meal formulas in Joseph and Aseneth -- 3 How to eat with non-Jews? -- 4 The discourse on meal practices in the Greek and Roman novel -- 5 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part Four: Epistolary Literature -- Chapter 17: "The Meal in 1 Corinthians 11" -- Introduction -- 1 The overall structure of the Hellenistic meal -- 2 The Hellenistic meal in the letters of Paul -- 3 1 Corinthians 11 -- 4 Jesus as symposiarch -- 5 The utopian symposiarch 6 Jesus as the symposiarch -- 7 The realization of the utopia -- 8 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 18: Meals in the Letter to the Romans - The Debate about the Food on the Table -- Introduction -- 1 Rom. 14.1-15.13 -- 2 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 19: Pseudepigraphic Letters of Paul -- Introduction -- 1 Pseudepigraphic authority -- 2 The Hellenistic meal in pseudepigraphic Pauline letters -- 3 Meal theology in pseudepigraphic Pauline letters -- 4 Meal theology in Pauline tradition -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 20: Meals in the Johannine Letters -- Introduction -- 1 'Sacramental' allusions in 1 Jn 5.6-8? -- 2 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 21: Meals in the Further Epistolary Literature of the New Testament -- Introduction -- 1 The Letter of James -- 2 The First Letter of Peter -- 3 The Letter of Jude -- 4 The Pauline origin of agapê as a term for a meal gathering -- 5 The Second Letter of Peter -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 22: Useless Foods: Communal Meals in Hebrews -- Introduction -- 1 The Epistle to the Hebrews and communal meals -- 2 Context, structure and content -- 3 Research history and central intertext -- 4 How the intertext Exod. 32-34 interprets Heb. 13 -- 5 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part Five: Apocalyptic Literature -- Chapter 23: Food in Fourth Ezra -- Introduction -- 1 Food, food symbolism and meals in the social world of 4 Ezra and in 4 Ezra -- 2 Foodstuffs, eating and drinking in 4 Ezra -- 3 Conclusion: Foodstuffs, eating and drinking in 4 Ezra -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 24: Meals and Banqueting Culture in the Apocalypse of John -- Introduction -- 1 References of real and metaphorical meals and aspects of meals -- 2 Warnings for false foodstuffs -- 3 The meal of the future -- 4 Abundance instead of hunger 5 Conclusion: Meals as identity markers -- Bibliography -- Part Six: Texts of Daily Life -- Chapter 25: Meals and Magic: Eating for Revelation in the Eighth Book of Moses (PGM XIII/ Leiden I 395)1 -- Introduction: What is a magical text? -- 1 The Greek magic papyri (PGM) -- 2 Case study: The Eight Book of Moses (PGM XIII) -- 3 Structural analysis of the key ritual for revelation -- 4 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 26: Meals in Ancient Medicinal Texts -- Introduction -- 1 Texts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 27: Material Meals: Space, Inscription and Image as the Texts of Daily Life -- Introduction -- 1 Mediterranean meals -- 2 Jewish/Ascetic -- 3 Emergent Christian -- 4 Monastic -- 5 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Ancient Sources |
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| ISBN: | 0567666417 |