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Contagious Holiness: Jesus' Meals with Sinners Volume 19
Contributor(s): Blomberg, Craig L. (Author), Carson, D. A. (Editor)
ISBN: 0830826203     ISBN-13: 9780830826209
Publisher: IVP Academic
OUR PRICE:   $25.20  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: August 2005
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Annotation: Jesus' "table fellowship" with sinners in the Gospels has been widely agreed to be historically reliable, but scholarly disputes continue. Craig L. Blomberg engages with the debate, surveys the relevant biblical texts and their background, and concludes with contemporary applications.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - New Testament
- Religion | Christian Theology - General
Dewey: 223.06
LCCN: 2005299937
Series: New Studies in Biblical Theology
Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.54" W x 8.44" (0.62 lbs) 216 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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  • Honored in 2006 as a Year's Best Book for Preachers by Preaching magazine.

One of humanity's most basic and common practices--eating meals--was transformed by Jesus into an occasion of divine encounter. In sharing food and drink with his companions, he invited them to share in the grace of God. He revealed his redemptive mission while eating with sinners, repentant and unrepentant alike. Jesus' table fellowship with sinners in the Gospels has been widely agreed to be historically reliable. However, this consensus has recently been challenged, for example, by the claim that the meals in which Jesus participated took the form of Greco-Roman symposia--or that the sinners involved were the most flagrantly wicked within Israel's society, not merely the ritually impure or those who did not satisfy strict Pharisaic standards of holiness. In this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, Craig L. Blomberg engages with the debate and opens up the significance of the topic. He surveys meals in the Old Testament and the intertestamental period, examines all the Gospel texts relevant to Jesus' eating with sinners, and concludes with contemporary applications. Addressing key issues in biblical theology, the works comprising New Studies in Biblical Theology are creative attempts to help Christians better understand their Bibles. The NSBT series is edited by D. A. Carson, aiming to simultaneously instruct and to edify, to interact with current scholarship and to point the way ahead.