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Contagious Holiness: Jesus' Meals with Sinners, Vol. 19 (New Studies in Biblical Theology)

Blomberg, Craig L.

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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 excellent and thorough study, 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.

Honored in 2006 as a "Year's Best Book for Preachers" by Preaching magazine.

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    Paperback
  • ISBN
    9780830826209
  • Page Count
    216
  • Publisher
    InterVarsity Press
  • Publication Date
    August 2005

Endorsements (3)

"[Offers] an enlightening analysis of Jesus' table fellowship for Christian academics and laypersons alike. . . . Citing his own experiences overseas, the outreach efforts of the "Scum of the Earth" church in Denver (of which he is a member), and other Christian ministries, Blomberg's application of "contagious holiness" is a promising resource for Christians living in a post-9/11 age."

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Linda MacCammon

Theological Studies 68/1, March 2007

"A pivotal book for understanding how meals fit into the mission of Jesus and the church."

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Missiology

January 2006

"Dr. Blomberg not only addresses current disputes about the 'table fellowship' practices of the historical Jesus, but also traces out the historical and theologically laden implications of table fellowship across the canon of Scripture, and issues a call to contemporary Christians to reform their habits in this matter."

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D. A. Carson

Professor, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Deerfield, Illinois)

About the Author

Craig L. Blomberg (Ph.D., Aberdeen) is Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary in Denver, Colorado. His books include Interpreting the Parables, Neither Poverty nor Riches, Jesus and the Gospels: An Introduction and Survey, The Historical Reliability of John's Gospel, commentaries on Matthew and 1 Corinthians, Making Sense of the New Testament: 3 Crucial Questions and Preaching the Parables.

Contagious Holiness: Jesus' Meals with Sinners, Vol. 19 (New Studies in Biblical Theology) Blomberg, Craig L. 9780830826209
InterVarsity Press

Contagious Holiness: Jesus' Meals with Sinners, Vol. 19 (New Studies in Biblical Theology)

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Publisher's Description

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 excellent and thorough study, 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.

Honored in 2006 as a "Year's Best Book for Preachers" by Preaching magazine.

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