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Anthems for a Dying Lamb: How Six Psalms (113–118) Became a Songbook for the Last Supper and the Age to Come is unavailable, but you can change that!

Anthems for a Dying Lamb offers an in-depth exposition of Psalms 113–118. Often called the Hallel, these psalms were part of the Passover seder, which directed proceedings during the Passover meal. That’s one reason the Hallel became known as the ‘hymn’ that Jesus sang with his disciples at the Last Supper, and why it is often part of communion services when the church celebrates the Lord’s...

second century to the destruction of the Temple’10 and New Testament commentators are now reading post-70 AD Judaic traditions back into the Gospel narratives? It takes little reading of Jewish discussion about the Haggadah to discover that, as with most ancient texts and customs, someone has always been willing to dispute over details, such as the colour of the wine to be used, or how much leaning to the left is required.11 Despite such debate, however, the Seder as Judaism practices it today took
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