John’s Immersions: Ritual Purification, but from What?

From what would John’s immersions purify? Considering texts from the Synoptics, Josephus, and 1QS on purification, sin, and forgiveness, various options are outlined and disentangled with the help of conceptual metaphor theory, especially conceptual blending, and the theory of ritual form. Although...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kazen, Thomas 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2024
In: Journal for the study of the New Testament
Year: 2024, Volume: 47, Issue: 2, Pages: 218-243
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Baptism / John the Baptist / Ritual / Synoptic Gospels / Dead Sea scrolls, Qumran Scrolls / Josephus, Flavius 37-100 / Cleaning
IxTheo Classification:HC New Testament
HD Early Judaism
NBP Sacramentology; sacraments
Further subjects:B Forgiveness
B Purification
B John the Baptist
B Conceptual blending
B Sacrifice
B theory of ritual form
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