Dining with John : communal meals and identity formation in the Fourth Gospel and its historical and cultural context / / by Esther Kobel.

• Superior document: Biblical interpretation series, v. 109
• Author: Kobel, Esther, 1977-
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical interpretation series ; v. 109.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (390 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book explores the accounts of communal meals and the metaphorical use of food and drink language in the narrative world of the Gospel of John. It argues that the Johannine community regularly gathered for communal meals in which the food and drink on the menu would have taken on a spiritual sig...