Ablution, initiation, and baptism
Subtitle: late antiquity, early Judaism, and early Christianity = Waschungen, Initiation und Taufe : Spätantike, frühes Judentum und frühes Christentum
By: [edited by] David Hellholm ... [et al.].
Series: Beihefte zur zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche wissenschaft und die kunde der älteren kirche -- Bd. 176
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 2024
ISBN-13: 9783110247510
Other titles: Waschungen, Initiation und Taufe
Description: The present volumes is the result of an international collaboration of researchers who are excellent within their respective fields: interpretation of texts, studies of rites, archaeology, architecture, history of art, and cultural anthropology. They met for two conferences to discuss the significance of rites of ablution, initiation, and baptism and their interpretation in Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity. The volume establishes a new international standard of research within these fields of scholarship.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

English and German.