Author : Meredith J. C. Warren
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451496697
My Flesh Is Meat Indeed by Meredith J. C. Warren Pdf
In My Flesh Is Meat Indeed, Meredith J. C. Warren shows that the "bread of life" discourse in John 6:51c-58 bears no Eucharistic overtones. Instead, John plays on Mediterranean cultural expectations about the nature of heroic sacrifice and the sacrificial meal that established the identification of a hero with a deity. Warren traces a literary trope in which a hero or heroine'’s antagonistic relationship with a deity is resolved through the hero's sacrifice. Against this milieu, Jesus' insistence that his flesh be eaten demonstrates the Christology of the Gospel.