This book seeks to demonstrate that the fellowship meal traditions in the ancient world form the background against which the Lords Supper must be understood. Likewise, the basis of Pauls response to the situation in Corinth and his theology of the Lords Supper is to be found in the fellowship meal traditions.
The book begins with a study of fellowship meal traditions in the Greco-Roman and Jewish societies. The roles and functions of the fellowship meal in these cultures indicate that the fellowship meal was an important institution and it played a pivotal role in the functioning of their...

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Luke-Acts is an impressive two-volume narrative seeking to convince and engage readers regarding the spiritual impact of Jesus of Nazareth on the Jewish people and other nations. To this end, Luke employs an impressive arsenal of literary and narrative techniques. This book focuses on a motif and its performance, the thoroughfare motif, which includes those figurative and concrete expressions involving ways, roads, city streets, and country paths. This study traces this motifs performance within the unfolding plot asking what difference the motif makes--progressively and...