John the Baptizer and Prophet
A Sociohistorical Study
This volume, a revised version of a doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of Sheffield in 1990, places John the Baptist within his first-century Jewish context by exploring his public roles and activities as a baptizer and a prophet as they would have been understood within the sociohistorical context of Second Temple Judaism. After surveying the relevant traditions concerning John the Baptist (in particular, Josephus, canonical Gospels, and extracanonical sources), the volume turns to the use of ablutions and immersions in the Hebrew Bible, in Second Temple Jewish literature, and especially in the Qumran literature. In light of t…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-72521-771-3
- EAN: 9781725217713
- Produktnummer: 34669769
- Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 446 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 38'467 KB
Über den Autor
Robert L. Webb (PhD, University of Sheffield) is an independent scholar, writing and teaching in Toronto, Canada. He is the executive editor of the 'Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus' (Sage Publications) as well as the monograph series, the Library of Historical Jesus Studies (T&T Clark). His most recent publications include 'Jesus and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ' (Continuum, 2004; co-edited with Kathleen E. Corley) and 'Reading James with New Eyes: Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of James' (T&T Clark, forthcoming; co-edited with John S. Kloppenborg).
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