Abstract
The success of the Jacobean program was virtually complete by the time the Synoptics came to be written, at least insofar as the program related to the transformation of the model of eucharist into Passover. The rhetoric of the introduction would exclude any conscious attempt at creativity, and the Corinthian correspondence would hardly be the place for Paul to claim traditional authority, only then to introduce an idiosyncratic perspective. The price of Paul's formulation was to abstract the supper from the sorts of meals which had inspired it within the ministry of Jesus. Both the acceptance of the Petrine order and an abstraction of the eucharist from communal meals were attractive within Hellenistic Christianity. The Synoptic Gospels reflect the conception of Jesus as the heroic ḥaṭaﺩat which characterized the Hellenistic catechesis invoked by Paul.Keywords: eucharist; Hellenistic Christianity; heroic ḥaṭaﺩat; Passover; Paul; Synoptic Gospels
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