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The conventional view of scholars has tended to be that the Last Supper, as recorded in the New Testament, was both the source and the pattern for the early Christian Eucharist. ‘Eucharistic Origins’ argues that, while the eucharistic sayings of Jesus did play an important part in shaping the beliefs of many early Christian communities: • the actual forms of their liturgical celebrations were...

as such.33 He reached this conclusion on the grounds that the Corinthians’ misunderstanding of the nature of the Eucharist would only make sense if it were still integrated in the meal, and also because Matthew and Mark show themselves uninterested in the relation of the actions over bread and cup to the meal compared to the reference to ‘after supper’ in the Pauline account: ‘They do not even state where and when in the meal they came, or whether together or at an interval.’34 But this idea must
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