01462nam a22001817a 4500003000600000005001700006008004100023020001600064020001800080040000800098082001600106100003300122245005700155260005500212300002800267505095300295650003201248GBCCL20241126110653.0210405b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d a0814659330  a9780814659335 cGBC a232.94bMUR aMurphy, Catherine M. d1961- aJohn the Baptist : bprophet of purity for a new age aCollegeville, Minn. : bLiturgical Press, c©2003 axviii, 185 pagesc23cm. aWill the Real Baptist Please Stand Up? -- Reading the Evidence: The Sources for John the Baptist -- The "Game Rules" for Reconstructing History from Ancient Witnesses -- Redaction Criticism: How and Why Authors Shape Their Stories -- The Synoptic Problem in the Account of the Baptism of Jesus -- A Solution to the Synoptic Problem: The Two-Source Hypothesis -- Redaction Criticism -- Baptist Vignettes in the Gospels: A Redaction-Critical Approach -- Fifteen Vignettes -- Some Redaction-Critical Results -- The Historical Baptist -- Another Angle on the Baptist Movement: Social-Scientific Criticism -- Definition, Scope, and Methods -- An Initial Exercise: A Map for Designing a Social-Scientific Inquiry -- An Inductive Exercise: From Text to Hypothesis -- Purification Movements in First-Century C.E. Judea -- A Deductive Exercise: From Model (Purity and Pollution) to Text -- An Inductive Exercise: First-Century Jewish Purification Movements. aJohn, vthe Baptist, Saint.