book suggestion: Eating Your Way Through Luke's Gospel
From the publisher:
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 women and food. Karris also examines the eucharistic implications of the way food and drink are portrayed.
This volume invites readers to get actively involved in the process of discovery by checking Scripture references alongside the author. Food themes in the other three Gospels are also briefly compared with Luke’s Gospel. Questions to stimulate an appetite for discussion or reflection and suggestions for further reading are provided at the end of each chapter.
http://www.amazon.com/Eating-Your-Through-Lukes-Gospel/dp/081462121X
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Looks interesting, and the price wasn't bad.
But it did give me a bit of a giggle to see Amazon's obvious ignorance of what OFM stands for and how it is used. [:D]
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fgh said:
Looks interesting, and the price wasn't bad.
But it did give me a bit of a giggle to see Amazon's obvious ignorance of what OFM stands for and how it is used.
But Amazon is a book seller (along with other things). You don't actually expect them to know anything about what's in them, do you? [;)]
george
gfsomselיְמֵי־שְׁנוֹתֵינוּ בָהֶם שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה וְאִם בִּגְבוּרֹת שְׁמוֹנִים שָׁנָה וְרָהְבָּם עָמָל וָאָוֶן
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tom collinge said:
If anyone is wondering, OFM is short for Ordo Fratrum Minorum (Order of Friars Minor).
Yes, and it's placed after a name, not before it.
"Robert J. Karris (Author), O.F.M. Robert J. Karris (Author)" are clearly one and the same person: Robert J Karris, OFM. Plus, if you click on the second name to see what else he's written, you'll find things like "by Bonaventure, F. Edward Coughlin, O.F.M. and Robert J. Karris", where the 'OFM' isn't even associated with Karris' name but with the name before, while those of Karris' books that don't happen to have an 'OFM' somewhere before 'Robert' don't show up at all.
George Somsel said:But Amazon is a book seller (along with other things). You don't actually expect them to know anything about what's in them, do you?
Not really, but given their size I do expect them to be able to handle at least the most common abbreviations for various orders, in the same way as I expect them to know what to do with Dr or PhD or OBE.
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george
gfsomselיְמֵי־שְׁנוֹתֵינוּ בָהֶם שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה וְאִם בִּגְבוּרֹת שְׁמוֹנִים שָׁנָה וְרָהְבָּם עָמָל וָאָוֶן
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George Somsel said:
Order of the British Empire.
Or, more exactly, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
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fgh said:George Somsel said:
Order of the British Empire.
Or, more exactly, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
And I thought it might be "Only brown or ecru." [:O] [:D]
george
gfsomselיְמֵי־שְׁנוֹתֵינוּ בָהֶם שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה וְאִם בִּגְבוּרֹת שְׁמוֹנִים שָׁנָה וְרָהְבָּם עָמָל וָאָוֶן
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