Eating Your Way Through Luke's Gospel

Robert Karris spreads before us a unique and delightful framing of the food theme in the Gospel of Luke.

Karris describes the food and drink popular in Jesus'' day. He also documents the social, political, and general contexts in which the food was prepared and eaten. He outlines the social roles Jesus assumes in Luke''s Gospel in relation to food and meals, as well as the relationship between wome...