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PIPER, Ronald A. (ed.) The Gospel Behind the Gospels: Current Studies on Q. Supplements to Novum Testamentum, 75. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995. Pp. xi + 411. Cl. $135. ISBN: 90-04-09737-6

PIPER, Ronald A. (ed.) The Gospel Behind the Gospels: Current Studies on Q. Supplements to Novum... 220 BOOK REVIEWS CHILTON, BRUCE, A Feast of Meanings: Eucharistic Theologies from Je- sus through Johannine Circles. Supplements to Novum Testamen- tum, 72. Leiden: Brill, 1994. Pp. xi + 210. Cl. $90. ISBN 90-04- 09949-2. Chilton analyzes the meals of Jesus as presented in the New Tes- tament, seeking their meaning on the basis of the presumed so- cial contexts that generated them. He labels the intuitive way in which he arrives at the meaning of these meals, "generative ex- egesis". Chilton's generative exegesis traces the way this single piece of behavior, the meal, takes on six different and unrelated meanings: "The meal which was for Jesus a feast of the kingdom and then a provisional surrogate of sacrifice was for the Petrine cycle a covenantal sacrifice, for the Jacobean revision a Passover, for the Synoptic tradition a heroic hata'at, and for the Johannine synthesis the flesh and blood of the son of man" (p. 157). The au- thor is at pains to point out how "the initial meaning does not de- termine the final meaning" (p. 158). This is an excellent book with a very persuasive hypothesis. Chilton writes intuitive social history at its best. He allows http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Biblical Interpretation Brill

PIPER, Ronald A. (ed.) The Gospel Behind the Gospels: Current Studies on Q. Supplements to Novum Testamentum, 75. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995. Pp. xi + 411. Cl. $135. ISBN: 90-04-09737-6

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Biblical Interpretation , Volume 5 (2): 220 – Jan 1, 1997
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220 BOOK REVIEWS CHILTON, BRUCE, A Feast of Meanings: Eucharistic Theologies from Je- sus through Johannine Circles. Supplements to Novum Testamen- tum, 72. Leiden: Brill, 1994. Pp. xi + 210. Cl. $90. ISBN 90-04- 09949-2. Chilton analyzes the meals of Jesus as presented in the New Tes- tament, seeking their meaning on the basis of the presumed so- cial contexts that generated them. He labels the intuitive way in which he arrives at the meaning of these meals, "generative ex- egesis". Chilton's generative exegesis traces the way this single piece of behavior, the meal, takes on six different and unrelated meanings: "The meal which was for Jesus a feast of the kingdom and then a provisional surrogate of sacrifice was for the Petrine cycle a covenantal sacrifice, for the Jacobean revision a Passover, for the Synoptic tradition a heroic hata'at, and for the Johannine synthesis the flesh and blood of the son of man" (p. 157). The au- thor is at pains to point out how "the initial meaning does not de- termine the final meaning" (p. 158). This is an excellent book with a very persuasive hypothesis. Chilton writes intuitive social history at its best. He allows

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