TY - BOOK AU - Murphy, Catherine M. TI - John the Baptist : : prophet of purity for a new age SN - 0814659330 U1 - 232.94 PY - 2003/// CY - Collegeville, Minn. : PB - Liturgical Press, KW - John, KW - the Baptist, Saint N1 - 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 ER -