Jesus' Meals with Sinners

1 Introduction
1.1 The Subject of the Study
1.2 The History of the Issue
1.3 Problem Statement
1.4 Research Hypothesis
1.5 Methodology
2 Jesus's Meals with Tax Collectors and Sinners: Finding and Interpreting Key Features
2.1 A Survey of the Main Accounts
2.2 Interpreting the Key Motif
2.3 The Reversal with Unexpected Participants in the Context of a Meal
2.4 Other Accounts with Unexpected Participants
2.5 Eschatological Reversal as a Background
3 Meals and Reversal in the Jewish Tradition
3.1 YHWH's Feast in Isaiah 25:6-8
3.2 Banquet with the Son of Man in 1 Enoch 62:14-16
3.3 Table Fellowship in the Ya?ad (1QS and 1QSa)
4 Jesus's Meals with Sinners as a Performance of a Reversal
4.1 Outlining the Matching Features
4.2 Outlining the Mismatched Features
4.3 Jesus's Reversal Within the Cultural Pattern
4.4 Jesus's Reversal Within the Broader Context of Jesus's Life
4.5 Jesus's Reversal as an Apocalyptic Sign
4.6 Conclusion
4.7 Sketching the Theological Perspective