Thomas R. Schreiner - The Lords Supper

OTHER BOOKS IN THIS SERIES:

Vol. 1 James M. Hamilton Jr., God's Indwelling Presence: The Holy Spirit in the Old and New Testaments

Vol. 2 Thomas R. Schreiner and Shawn D. Wright, eds., Believer's Baptism: Sign of the New Covenant in Christ

Vol. 3 Barry E. Horner, Future Israel: Why Christian Anti-Judaism Must Be Challenged

Vol. 4 Timothy M. Pierce, Enthroned on Our Praise: An Old Testament Theology of Worship

Vol. 5 Christopher D. Bass, That You May Know: Assurance of Salvation in 1 John

Vol. 6 Jason C. Meyer, The End of the Law: Mosaic Covenant in Pauline Theology

Vol. 7 Mark F. Rooker, The Ten Commandments: Ethics for the Twenty-first Century

Vol. 8 David L. Allen, Lukan Authorship of Hebrews

Vol. 9 Michael Rydelnik, The Messianic Hope: Is the Hebrew Bible Really Messianic?

The Lord's Supper:

Remembering and Proclaiming Christ until He Comes

Copyright 2010 by Thomas R. Schreiner and Matthew R. Crawford

All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-8054-4757-6

Published by B&H Publishing Group

Nashville, Tennessee

Dewey Decimal Classification: 264.36

Subject Heading: DOCTRINAL THEOLOGY\LORD'S SUPPER\SACRAMENTS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

AB Anchor Bible

ACCS Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, ed. T. C. Oden. OT series (ACCS:OT) or NT series (ACCS:NT).

ANF Ante-Nicene Fathers, ed. A. Roberts, J. Donaldson, P. Schaff, and H. Wace. 10 vols. Eerdmans, 1985.

Ant. Josephus, Jewish Antiquities

AYB Anchor Yale Bible

b. Babylonian Talmud

BAGD W. Bauer, W. F. Arndt, F. W. Gingrich, and F. Danker, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press, 1979.

bar. baraita

BAR Biblical Archaeology Review

BBR Bulletin for Biblical Research

BDAG W. Bauer, F. W. Danker, W. F. Arndt, and F. W. Gingrich, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 3rd ed. University of Chicago Press, 2000.

BDF F. Blass, A. Debrunner, and R. W. Funk, A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. University of Chicago, 1961.

BECNT Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament

BNTC Black's New Testament Commentary

BTNT The Biblical Theology of the New Testament

CCCM Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis

CNTC Calvin's New Testament Commentaries, trans. T. H. L. Parker, ed. D. W. Torrance and T. F. Torrance. Eerdmans, 1988.

CNTOT Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, ed. G. K. Beale and D. A. Carson. Baker, 2007.

Congr. Philo, De congressu eruditionis gratia

Contempl. Philo, De vita contemplativa

CTJ Calvin Theological Journal

CTR Criswell Theological Review

Did. Didache

DJG Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, ed. J. B. Green, S. McKnight, and I. H. Marshall. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1992.

DLNTD Dictionary of the Later New Testament and Its Developments, ed. R. P. Martin and P. H. Davids. InterVarsity, 1997.

DPL Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, ed. G. F. Hawthorne, R. P. Martin, and D. G. Reid. InterVarsity, 1993.

DTIBDictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible, ed. K. Vanhoozer et al. Baker, 2005.

EBC Expositor's Bible Commentary, ed. Frank Gaebelein. Zondervan, 1992.

EBS Encountering Biblical Studies

esp. especially

ESV English Standard Version

ExpTim Expository Times

FC Fathers of the Church. Catholic University of America Press, 1947.

GGBB D. B. Wallace, Greek Grammar beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament. Zondervan, 1996.

GGNT A. T. Robertson, Greek Grammar of the New Testament. 4th ed. Broadman, 1934.

GNT Greek New Testament

HCSB Holman Christian Standard Bible

Her Hermeneia

Holmes The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations, ed. and trans. M. W. Holmes. 3rd ed. Baker, 2007.

HTR Harvard Theological Review

IBC Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching

ICC International Critical Commentary

Ign. Eph. Ignatius, To the Ephesians

Institutes John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, ed. J. T. McNeill, trans. F. L. Battles, LCC vols. 2122. Westminster, 1960.

Int Interpretation

ITQ Irish Theological Quarterly

JBL Journal of Biblical Literature

JBMW Journal of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood

JECS Journal of Early Christian Studies

JEH Journal of Ecclesiastical History

JETS Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society

JRH Journal of Religious History

JSNT Journal for the Study of the New Testament

JSNTSup Journal for the Study of the New Testament: Supplement Series

JTS Journal of Theological Studies

Jub. Jubilees

J.W. Josephus, Jewish War

KNT Kommentar zum Neuen Testament

L&N J. P. Louw and E. A. Nida, eds. Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Based on Semantic Domains, 2 vols. 2nd ed. UBS, 1989.

LCC Library of Christian Classics

LCL Loeb Classical Library

LQ The Lutheran Quarterly

LSJ H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon. 9th ed. Oxford, 1940.

LW Luther's Works, 55 vols. (American edition)

LXX Septuagint

m. . Mishnah Pesahim

m. abb. Mishnah abbat

m. Zebah. Mishnah Zebahim

Mansi J. D. Mansi, ed., Sacrorum Conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio. Rev. ed., 31 vols. Petit and Martin, 18991927.

Mart. Pol. Martyrdom of Polycarp

Mek. Mekilta

Midr. Midrash

MM J. H. Moulton and G. Milligan, The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament. Eerdmans, 1930.

MT Masoretic Text

NA27Novum Testamentum Graece, ed. E. and E. Nestle, B. and K. Aland et al. 27th ed.

NAC New American Commentary

NACSBT New American Commentary Studies in Bible and Theology

NAS New American Standard Bible