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To investigate Jesus' associations with 'tax collectors and sinners' within the Jewish apocalyptic framework, Serhii Smahlo identifies the essential features of the gospel accounts and examines their alignment with an eschatological vision found in Jewish tradition. The overall survey reveals a consistent motif: it is the presence of 'unexpected participants,' explained by Jesus in terms of reversal, that causes indignation among his opponents. Viewing this motif against the background of early Jewish eschatological expectations, Serhii Smahlo argues that Jesus' meals with 'unexpected participants' were a specific enactment of eschatological reversal, reflecting both a close connection to common apocalyptic expectations and a certain discrepancy from them, which might explain the conflict and rejection surrounding these events.
Price: £96.20
Pages: 295
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Imprint: Mohr Siebeck
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe
Publication Date:
03 March 2026
ISBN: 9783161634604
Format: Paperback
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Born 1988; 2003-07 studied at M.D. Leontovych Vinnytsia College of Culture and Arts (Ukraine); 2015 MA in Biblical Studies and Theology (Moscow Theological Academy); 2023 Dr. theol. (University of Jena); Research Fellow on the project "Corpus Judaeo-Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti digital" at the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
1 Introduction1.1 The Subject of the Study1.2 The History of the Issue 1.3 Problem Statement1.4 Research Hypothesis1.5 Methodology 2 Jesus’s Meals with Tax Collectors and Sinners: Finding and Interpreting Key Features2.1 A Survey of the Main Accounts2.2 Interpreting the Key Motif2.3 The Reversal with Unexpected Participants in the Context of a Meal2.4 Other Accounts with Unexpected Participants2.5 Eschatological Reversal as a Background 3 Meals and Reversal in the Jewish Tradition3.1 YHWH’s Feast in Isaiah 25:6–83.2 Banquet with the Son of Man in 1 Enoch 62:14–163.3 Table Fellowship in the Ya?ad (1QS and 1QSa) 4 Jesus’s Meals with Sinners as a Performance of a Reversal4.1 Outlining the Matching Features4.2 Outlining the Mismatched Features4.3 Jesus’s Reversal Within the Cultural Pattern4.4 Jesus’s Reversal Within the Broader Context of Jesus’s Life4.5 Jesus’s Reversal as an Apocalyptic Sign4.6 Conclusion4.7 Sketching the Theological Perspective