A Meal with the Messiah: Biblical Hopes Amidst Pandemic Hunger

Abstract

: In this short work, the author asks “Why is salvation imagined in the bible as a meal with the Messiah?” The biblical imagination of a messianic banquet must have been developed by inspired but hungry people and then read and handed on from generation to generation by hungry people who were inspired by them. As the pandemic worsened world hunger, this work accompanies the reader in a biblical reflection on hunger and fullness from the Old Testament to the New.