Table of Contents

• Preface
• 1. Passed Over, Past Due
• 2. From the Essenes to Jesus
• 3. The Table of the Entitled and the Table of the Lord: Eating and Drinking in Corinth
• 4. The Long Farewell: The Feast in John 13 17
• 5. Missing Supper: The Eucharist in Early Christianity
• 6. Second Century Sacraments
• 7. When the Meal became the Mass
• 8. Mystery of the Meal
• Notes

About the Author

Ben Witherington III is Professor of New Testament for Doctoral Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary. His publications include Troubled Waters: Rethinking the Theology of Baptism (2007), The Living Word of God: Rethinking the Theology of the Bible (2007), What's in the Word: Rethinking the Socio-Rhetorical Character of the New Testament (2009), and The Problem with Evangelical Theology: Testing the Exegetical Foundations of Calvinism, Dispensationalism, Wesleyanism, and Pentecostalism, Revised and Expanded Edition (2015).

Reviews

Witherington provides compelling answers to many of the crucial issues. - E. Arnold, Professor and Chairman, Department of New Testament, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University

In sum, this volume is an excellent model of how scholars can serve the church by applying multiple disciplines to important issues in the church and making the results available in an accessible manner -- Matthew S. Harmon, Grace Theological Seminary -- Bulletin for Biblical Research