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This classic work on baptism, originally published in 1962, is an exceptionally competent and exhaustive treatment of its subject. Baptism in the New Testament considers the Old Testament and Judaistic background to baptism, as well as giving a detailed study of relevant New Testament passages. Beasley-Murray begins his study with a consideration of the antecedents of Christian baptism, and...

figure manifestly taken from the Old Testament, where it frequently refers to the cup of wrath meted out by God (see e.g. Ps. 75:8, Is. 51:17, 22 ff, Jer. 49:12 f, Lam. 4:21); it is antecedently likely that the metaphor of baptism was also taken from common usage, for which there exist both wider precedents and reasonably close parallels, in Scripture and profane writings.1 There is therefore some reason for assuming that the verb ‘baptize’ was capable of yielding a literal and a figurative sense,
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