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The Lost Supper
Revisiting Passover and the Origins of the Eucharist
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2019
Summary
What did Jesus intend when he spoke the words, “This is my body”? The Lost Supper argues that Jesus’ words and actions at the Last Supper presupposed an already existing Passover ritual in which the messiah was represented by a piece of bread: Jesus was not instituting new symbolism but using an existing symbol to speak about himself. Drawing on both second temple and early Rabbinic sources, Matthew Colvin places Jesus’ words in the Upper Room within the context of historically attested Jewish thought about Passover. The result is a new perspective on the Eucharist: a credible first-century Jewish way of thinking about the Last Supper and Lord’s Supper— and a sacramentology that is also at work in the letters of the apostle Paul. Such a perspective gives us the historical standpoint to correct Christian assumptions, past and present, about how the Eucharist works and how we ought to celebrate it.
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2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-0033-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-9787-0034-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
174
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Abbreviations No access
Chapter One. The Historical Project No access Pages 1 - 10
Chapter Two. The Passover Background No access Pages 11 - 36
Chapter Three. Evidence from Jews and Greeks No access Pages 37 - 70
Chapter Four. Layers of Meaning No access Pages 71 - 92
Chapter Five. Mechanics and Misinterpretations No access Pages 93 - 110
Chapter Six. Rereading John 6 No access Pages 111 - 118
Chapter Seven. The Festal Meal in Corinth No access Pages 119 - 138
Chapter Eight. Experiencing the Lord’s Supper Today No access Pages 139 - 150
Bibliography No access Pages 151 - 160
General Index No access Pages 161 - 166
Index of Ancient Literature No access Pages 167 - 172
