Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World

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The three Synoptic Gospels and the First Epistle to the Corinthians include the account of the institution of the Eucharist in which Jesus takes bread, breaks it and gives it to those present, saying "This is my body given to you". [5] [6] The Gospel of John tells of Jesus washing the feet of the apostles, [7] giving the new commandment "to love one another as I have loved you", [8] and has a detailed farewell discourse by Jesus, calling the apostles who follow his teachings "friends and not servants", as he prepares them for his departure. [9] [10] [11] That said, this was refreshing in its unforgiving nature. It's made me look at all accounts of history with a sharper eye.

Overall, this book was full of interesting information, stories & facts. Unfortunately, the interesting bits could have been strung together much more artfully, and with a more nuanced perspective on race and colonialism. Poupko, Yehiel; Sandmel, David (6 April 2017). "Jesus Didn't Eat a Seder Meal". ChristianityToday.com . Retrieved 28 August 2021. Detailing their research in the book, Urciuoli and Berogno also hypothesize the Last Supper might have occurred during the Feast of Booths or Tabernacles, an autumn feast commemorating the years the Israelites spent in the desert in fragile dwellings after the exodus.Blomberg, Craig (2009). Jesus and the Gospels. Nashville: B & H Pub. Group. ISBN 978-1-4336-6842-5. OCLC 727647948.

The term "Last Supper" does not appear in the New Testament, [21] [22] but traditionally many Christians refer to such an event. [22] The term "Lord's Supper" refers both to the biblical event and the act of "Holy Communion" and Eucharistic ("thanksgiving") celebration within their liturgy. Evangelical Protestants also use the term "Lord's Supper", but most do not use the terms "Eucharist" or the word "Holy" with the name "Communion". [23] The COVID-19 pandemic is changing us. Our communities—our world—will not be the same now that we have experienced this viral threat together. We aren’t even aware yet of all the ways we are being and will be changed. According to Urciuoli and Berogno, other food on the table would have included cholent, a stewed dish of beans cooked very low and slow, olives with hyssop, a herb with a mint-like taste, bitter herbs with pistachios and a date charoset, a chunky fruit and nut paste. Armentrout, D.S.; Slocum, R.B. (1999). An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church: A User-Friendly Reference for Episcopalians. Church Publishing Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-89869-211-2.Anon. (1992). Liturgical Year: The Worship of God. Supplemental liturgical resource. Presbyterian Publishing Corporation. ISBN 978-0-664-25350-9. In like manner also the cup, after supper, saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.' This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. The picture that emerges is completely different from traditional renderings of the Last Supper. The dinner, which happened on the upper room of a house in Jerusalem, wasn't a seated gathering at a rectangular table.

Every country held, too, peculiar challenges for feminism; the struggle worldwide consisted not of imposing a set of general principals from nation to nation, but of winning what could be won from local conditions and national conventions” (Miles 240). Some scholars have looked to the Last Supper as the source of early Christian Eucharistic traditions. [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] Others see the account of the Last Supper as derived from 1st-century eucharistic practice as described by Paul in the mid-50s. [13] [18] [19] [20] Terminology Last Supper, Monreale Cathedral mosaics ( Palermo, Sicily, Italy) Meier, John P. (1991). A Marginal Jew: The roots of the problem and the person. Vol.One. Doubleday. p.398. ISBN 978-0-385-26425-9.

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Aquinas stated that based on John 15:15 (in the Farewell discourse), in which Jesus said: "No longer do I call you servants; ...but I have called you friends," [75] those who are followers of Christ and partake in the Sacrament of the Eucharist become his friends, as those gathered at the table of the Last Supper. [73] [74] [76] For Aquinas, at the Last Supper Christ made the promise to be present in the Sacrament of the Eucharist, and to be with those who partake in it, as he was with his disciples at the Last Supper. [77] The last meal that Jesus shared with his apostles is described in all four canonical Gospels [25] as having taken place in the week of the Passover. This meal later became known as the Last Supper. [6] The Last Supper was likely a retelling of the events of the last meal of Jesus among the early Christian community, and became a ritual which recounted that meal. [26] McNamee, Maurice (1998). Vested angels: eucharistic allusions in early Netherlandish paintings. Leuven: Peeters. ISBN 978-90-429-0007-3. OCLC 39715499.

Thompson, B. (1996). Humanists and Reformers: A History of the Renaissance and Reformation. Wm B. Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-8028-6348-5. Historical Accuracy: I am not a historian so I can’t comment on the complete accuracy of every incident and historical event referenced in this text. However, I think an objective historian would agree (and many have) that a vast number of history texts out there aren’t accurate either, whether through omissions, hero-making, and/or outright misrepresentations. It’s interesting though how those texts were accepted for so long, yet let a women offer up a book on history that proposes that it was the female of the species who had the greatest role in the continuation of the human race, and so much of her credibility and the credibility of the text is called into question. A new approach to resolve this contrast was undertaken in the wake of the excavations at Qumran in the 1950s when Annie Jaubert argued that there were two Passover feast dates: while the official Jewish lunar calendar had Passover begin on a Friday evening in the year that Jesus died, a solar calendar was also used, for instance by the Essene community at Qumran, which always had the Passover feast begin on a Tuesday evening. According to Jaubert, Jesus would have celebrated the Passover on Tuesday, and the Jewish authorities three days later, on Friday. [ citation needed] According to John P. Meier and E. P. Sanders, Jesus having a final meal with his disciples is almost beyond dispute among scholars, and belongs to the framework of the narrative of Jesus' life. [87] [88] I. Howard Marshall states that any doubt about the historicity of the Last Supper should be abandoned. [14] Köstenberger, Andreas J.; Kellum, Leonard Scott; Quarles, Charles L. (2009). The cradle, the cross, and the crown: an introduction to the New Testament. Nashville, Tenn: B & H Academic. ISBN 978-0-8054-4365-3. OCLC 369138111.

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Moreover, supporting women's rights movements and organizations is crucial. Engaging in volunteer work, donations, or actively participating in protests, rallies, or campaigns for women's rights can help create a more egalitarian society. Amplifying women's voices and standing up against sexism, harassment, and violence towards women is essential in combatting patriarchal structures and perceptions. Controversies: At times, does the author belittle and reduce the importance men played in not just history but the advancement of the human race? Absolutely, but isn’t that what traditional history has done to women? Until an edition of world history where the sexes are presented equally becomes the mainstream text, readers are going to have to accept that as long as sexism exists a universal human history is out of reach. In addition to individual contributions, Miles also explores the roles of women in the development of culinary traditions and the establishment of food culture. For instance, she delves into the history of the Javanese women who worked as domestic cooks for the Dutch colonizers during the colonial period. These women played a crucial role in introducing Indonesian cuisine to the Dutch, influencing the flavors and techniques used in Dutch cooking to this day. However, their contributions have largely been attributed to the colonizers, further perpetuating the erasure of women's role in culinary history. Firstly, it is essential to recognize and appreciate the immense contributions of women throughout history. Engaging in conversations and sharing knowledge about the remarkable achievements of women in various fields such as science, literature, art, and politics can help combat the erasure of women's accomplishments from mainstream narratives. By incorporating this awareness into our daily lives, we can challenge the prevailing notion that the stories of men are inherently more significant, thus diminishing the persisting gender bias. And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and gave to them, saying, 'This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.' [40]