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‘If Anyone Hungers …’: An Integrated Reading of 1 Cor 11.17–34

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2002

SUZANNE WATTS HENDERSON
SUZANNE WATTS HENDERSON
Affiliation:
Dept of Religion, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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Abstract

Based on an integrated reading of the social and sacramental dimensions of 1 Cor 11.17–34, this study suggests that, rather than denoting the private homes of the wealthy, Paul's use of οικια/οικος (11.22, 34) refers to the domain of the Corinthian church's gathering. As a result, his exhortation in these verses entails not a tacit endorsement of stratified resources but a concerted argument for the feeding of the hungry in the community's shared meal (δειπνον), a meal he hopes will imitate Jesus' pattern of self-sacrifice and so will become a meal that is ‘of the Lord (κυριακον δειπνον)’.

Type
Research Article
Information
New Testament Studies , Volume 48 , Issue 2 , April 2002 , pp. 195 - 208
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

This article is an expanded version of my paper given in the Pauline Epistles section of the annual SBL meeting in Denver, Colorado, in November 2001. My deep thanks to Richard Hays, Joel Marcus, and Rick Stone for their careful reading and critical responses. While any merits of my exegesis reflect their influence, the flaws herein are mine alone.