Jesus' Meals with Sinners

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Serhii Smahlo investigates Jesus' table fellowship with outcasts in light of Jewish eschatological expectations. He explores how Jesus' inclusion of "unexpected participants" embodied the concept of reversal - "the last will be first and the first will be last" - and how this enactment sparked conflict and ultimately led to Jesus' rejection.
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.

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Serhii Smahlo
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.

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