Many authors (such as Paul Bradshaw) see some significance in the absence of a reference to breaking the loaf in the possible primitive eucharistic tradition represented in John 6:11, the codex Bezae version of Luke 24:30, and the works of Irenaeus and Justin Martyr among others. This paper seeks to qualify that approach based on evidence across mainly Syriac, Greek, and Latin sources, arguing that in some cases a reference to breaking is not actually absent, but also arguing that neither its presence nor its absence is in itself significant.
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