prophet of purity for a new age Murphy, Catherine M. 1961- creator text Collegeville, Minn Liturgical Press ©2003 monographic eng

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xviii, 185 pages 23cm. Will 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. John the Baptist, Saint 232.94 MUR 0814659330 9780814659335 210405 20241126110653.0