Title: Ablution, initiation, and baptism
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.
Subjects: Religion, Lustrations, Judaism, Congresses, Baptism, History, Nichtchristliche Religion, Klassieke oudheid, Frühjudentum, 11.09 systematic religious studies: other, Initiatie, Initiation, Ritus, Taufe, Doop, Reinigung, Kultische Reinheit, Neues Testament, Historia, Early church, Dopet, Frühchristentum, Rome, religion, Rites and ceremonies, Initiation rites, Christianity, Religious aspects
Places: Rome
Time periods: Early church, ca. 30-600