Memorable Meals: Symposia in Luke's Gospel, the Rabbinic Seder, and the Greco-Roman Literary Tradition
Table of Contents
Preface
- Issues in the Current Study of Christian and Jewish Meals and the Greco-Roman Literary Tradition
- Issues in the Current Interpretation of Meals in Luke-Acts: The Need for Comparative Study in a Jewish Reading of Luke-Acts
- Symposium Topoi
- Symposium Genres
- Genres And Choices
- Religion And Ideology In Symposium Literature
- Literary Conceptualization Of Symposium Practice
- From Meal Events to Talk About Them
- Symposium Literary Topoi As Implicit Social Ethos
- Symposium Genres As Implicit Worldviews
- Symposium Genres as Figures of Order and Change
- Luke's Use Of Symposium Scenes
- Luke's Use Of The Technique Of The Fait Divers As A Pretext For Table Talk
- Luke's Use Of Conventional Symposium Characters
- Luke's Use Of Symposium Quarrels To Symbolize Social Tensions
- The Last Supper as a Symposium Scene
- Luke's Last Supper as a Seder
- Symposium Topoi in Luke's Last Supper
- Earlier Traditions Organized in a Symposium Setting
- Meal Courses and the Course of Salvation History
- The Last Supper and the Other Meal Scenes in Luke's Gospel
- Excursus: Whose Theory of Periodization of Salvation History Does Luke Use in the Last Supper?
- Luke's Symposia In Comparison With Other Symposia Imbedded In Novels
- Luke The Sophist
- Definitions Of Ritualization
- Literary Ritualization Of The Last Supper And Passover Seder As Symposia
- Rituals Of Separation And Re-Integration
- Ritualization Of Different Metaphors
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