Anders Eriksson has most helpfully demonstrated the importance of shared apostolic formulations as common premises for life and thought in the Pauline communities.11 It is not “Paul’s” tradition alone (contrary to the overly speculative claims of Hans Lietzmann), but common apostolic tradition to which appeal is made in 1 Cor. 11:17–26. Eriksson traces the history of research on this area from the work of Alfred Seeberg in 1903, to Eduard Norden, Ernst Lohmeyer, and more recently Neufeld, Hans von
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