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Robert L. Webb

John the Baptizer and Prophet

A Socio-Historical Study

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Using recent methodological advances in historical Jesus research, this book examines the figure of John by focusing on the two characteristic roles which he publicly performed-baptizer and prophet. The significance of these roles is studied within the context of late Second Temple Judaism in order to understand John within his social and historical context. Part I examines the traditions concerning John in Josephus's Antiquities as well as in canonical and extra canonical Gospels. Part II studies John's role as baptizer by analysing the functions of ablutions in the Old Testament and Second Temple Jewish literature, especially the Qumran lit… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-567-31429-1
  • EAN: 9780567314291
  • Produktnummer: 16999723
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1991
  • Seitenangabe: 446 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 23'512 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor


Robert L. Webb lectures in the Religious Studies Department of McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. He is the executive editor of the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus (Sage) and of the monograph series Library of Historical Jesus Studies (a subset of LNTS, T&T Clark). He is the author of John the Baptizer and Prophet: A Socio-Historical Study (Sheffield Academic Press, 1991) and more recently the co-editor with Kathleen Corley of Jesus and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ: The Film, the Gospels, and the Claims of History (Continuum, 2004) and with John Kloppenborg of Reading James with New Eyes: Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of James (T&T Clark, 2007).

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