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Who did Jesus of Nazareth claim to be? What was his relationship to early Judaism? When and how did he expect the kingdom to come? What were his intentions? Though these key questions have been addressed in studies of the historical Jesus, Brant Pitre argues that they cannot be fully answered apart from a careful historical analysis of the Last Supper accounts. Yet these accounts, both by the...

now to note is that the definitive constitution of this new people of God in nuce was done in proleptic manner at the Last Supper.78 The symbolic action against the temple cult was complemented by Jesus’ symbolic action at the last supper in founding a cult, though he did not intend to found a cult which would last through time. He simply wanted to replace provisionally the temple cult which had become obsolete: Jesus offers the disciples a replacement for the official cult in which they could either
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