Why is John the Baptist Used as a Foil for Jesus? Leaps of Faith and Oblique Anti-Judaism in Contemporary Scholarship

Despite the existence of some differences between John the Baptist and Jesus the Galilean, there is no compelling evidence allowing us to infer that they were significantly contrasting characters, even less to postulate any significant opposition between them: the available sources are witnesses to...

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Main Author: Bermejo-Rubio, Fernando (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2013
In: Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
Year: 2013, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 170-196
Further subjects:B Anti-judaism differences (dis)continuity Jesus John the Baptist similarities uniqueness
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