TY - BOOK ID - 2526451 TI - A feast of meanings PY - 1994 VL - 72 SN - 9004099492 9004267050 9789004099494 9789004267053 PB - Leiden ;New York E.J. Brill DB - UniCat KW - Lord's Supper KW - Eucharistie KW - History KW - Histoire KW - Bible. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - 265.31 KW - -Communion KW - Eucharist KW - Holy Communion KW - Sacrament of the Altar KW - Blood KW - Sacraments KW - Sacred meals KW - Last Supper KW - Mass KW - Eucharistie: werkelijke tegenwoordigheid; transsubstantiatie KW - -Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - -Eucharistie: werkelijke tegenwoordigheid; transsubstantiatie KW - -265.31 KW - 265.31 Eucharistie: instelling; apologetica KW - 265.31 Eucharistie: werkelijke tegenwoordigheid; transsubstantiatie KW - Eucharistie: instelling; apologetica KW - -265.31 Eucharistie: instelling; apologetica KW - Communion KW - -Lord's Supper KW - Ba-yon Tipan KW - Bagong Tipan KW - Jaji ma Hungi KW - Kainē Diathēkē KW - New Testament KW - Nouveau Testament KW - Novo Testamento KW - Novum Testamentum KW - Novyĭ Zavet KW - Novyĭ Zavi︠e︡t Gospoda nashego Īisusa Khrista KW - Novyĭ Zavit KW - Nuevo Testamento KW - Nuovo Testamento KW - Nye Testamente KW - Perjanjian Baru KW - Dhamma sacʻ kyamʻʺ KW - Injīl KW - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. KW - Lord's Supper - History - Early church, ca. 30-600. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2526451 AB - The monograph analyses eucharistic texts on the basis of the social practices which generated them. Six stages of ideology are identified. Jesus himself practised fellowship at meals as celebrations of Israel's purity (stage 1), and later insisted that a pure meal was a better sacrifice than an offering in the Temple (stage 2). The circle of Peter made such meals into covenantal celebrations; Jesus became a new Moses (stage 3). In order to militate against the full participation of non-Jews, the circle of James invented the full identifications with Passover (stage 4). Paul resisted any such limitations (stage 5). The Synoptic tradition accepted the Jacobean chronology, but joined Paul in developing the Hellenistic theme of Jesus as heroic martyr, and in explaining eucharist as a means of effecting solidarity with Jesus (stage 5). The Johannine ideologies transformed the idiom of eucharist by making Jesus into the paschal lamb which is consumed (stage 6). A conclusion relates the practices identified to the sources behind the Gospels; and shows how practice is key to the meanings of eucharistic texts. ER -