Dining with John: Communal Meals and Identity Formation in the Fourth Gospel and its Historical and Cultural Context

Kobel, Esther

ISBN 10: 9004217789 / ISBN 13: 9789004217782

Published by Brill, 2011

About this Item

No jacket as issued. Bumped upper corners. Light wear to lower corners. Few small dents to spine. Light wear to surfaces, crown and heel. Inscribed by author in French on front endpaper and dated "11 Decembre 2011." No edition remark. (xx)370pp. Textual interior unmarred. Octavo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dining with John: Communal Meals and Identity Formation in the Fourth Gospel and its Historical and Cultural Context
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004217789
• ISBN 13: 9789004217782
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 2.6W x 16H x 24D centimeters 2.6 centimeters width by 16 centimeters height by 24 centimeters depth
• Weight: 771 grams
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

This book explores the accounts of communal meals and the metaphorical use of food and drink language in the narrative world of the Gospel of John. It argues that the Johannine community regularly gathered for communal meals in which the food and drink on the menu would have taken on a spiritual significance far exceeding the physical sustenance. The study employs a socio-rhetorical methodology and consequently moves from text to context. It tentatively describes the texts’ influence on the formation of early Christian identity and suggests that the Johannine meal accounts provide a way to imagine the demographic composition of the community and its historical context.

About the Author

Esther Kobel, Dr. theol. (2010), University of Basel, Switzerland, is Post-Doctoral Teaching and Research Assistant at the Department of New Testament Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of Basel.