Jesus' Meals with Sinners

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 Background3 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 Yaḥad (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