Useless Foods: Communal Meals in Hebrews

Gabriella Gelardini

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Seiten:: 196–216

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004460171_010

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This article is concerned with food and communal meals in the Epistle to the Hebrews. Hebrews 13:9-16 is identified as the central passage on the subject, and the link to its central intertext in Exod 32-34 lends these verses (and the entire homily) their particular meaning. The actual problem of the examined pericope is wonderfully captured in Lucas van Leyden’s triptych entitled The Dance of the Jews around the Golden Calf, at that time as well as at the time of the audience: He or she who consumes useless foods, that is, meat sacrificed to idols, has fallen away (Heb 3:12) and takes part in idolatry; idolaters, however, whom the author calls “fornicators” (12:16), are responsible for covenant breaking and for God’s turning away. Whoever seeks reconciliation with God, and that is exactly what the author calls for, goes to the “sacrificial altar” of the suffering Jesus, as did those willing at the time of Moses. They are invited to the somewhat different “table” in the tent, which some intertexts call house of study. For there the repentant ones receive from the good teacher the right teaching, namely “solid food,” as Heb 5:12, 14 put it, in order to obtain Jesus’ forgiveness. Regardless of the virtual character of this food at a sacred time, a true and proper “communal meal” nevertheless takes place, and that is on the outside. This place creates identity, because there the brothers and sisters committed to love are given not only reconciliation and fellowship (Heb 13:1), but also a future, an unshakeable kingdom (Heb 12:28). On the outside this kingdom is already recognizable, which is why this causes spontaneous sacrifices of (or spiritual) praise to flow from willing mouths.

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Deciphering the Worlds of Hebrews

Collected Essays

Reihe: Novum Testamentum, Supplements, Band: 184

ISBN:: 9789004460171

Verleger:: Brill

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 12 Apr 2021

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  - Neues Testament & Frühchristliche Schriften
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Part 1 The World of Hebrews’s Text

Part 2 The World behind Hebrews’s Text

Part 3 The World in Front of Hebrews’s Text

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