Eating Your Way Through Luke's Gospel

Name: Eating Your Way Through Luke's Gospel
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ISBN: 9780814621219

ISBN-10: 081462121X

ISBN-13: 9780814621219

Edition: 2006

Authors: Robert J. Karris

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Robert Karris spreads before us a unique and delightful framing of the food theme in the Gospel of Luke. Karris describes the food and drink popular in Jesus' day. He also documents the social, political, and general contexts in which the food was prepared and eaten. He outlines the social roles Jesus assumes in Luke's Gospel in relation to food and meals, as well as the relationship between women and food. Karris also examines the eucharistic implications of the way food and drink are portrayed. This volume invites readers to get actively involved in the process of discovery by checking Scripture references alongside the author. Food themes in the other three Gospels are also briefly…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Publication date: 2/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 5.37" wide x 8.25" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English




The realia of food and drink during the time of Jesus and Luke



The theme of food in Luke's Gospel



Jesus, glutton and drunkard, friend of toll collectors and sinners



Jesus as guest, host, and teacher at meals



Jesus' petition for food and food imagery in Luke's parables



Trawling for the theme of food in the gospels of John, Mark, and Matthew



Food and women



Eating is a serious and dangerous, but also a joyful business



Correlation of pages in the book with readings of Luke's Gospel in Sunday cycle C