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In Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries, Everett Ferguson provides a comprehensive survey of the doctrine and practice of baptism in the first five centuries of Christian history, arranged geographically within chronological periods. Baptism in the Early Church covers the antecedents to Christian baptism and traces the history of Christian...

The verbs βάπτω and βαπτίζω are common enough in literal and metaphorical usage to establish their meaning with some degree of confidence.1 The nouns βάπτης, βαπτισμός, and βαπτιστήριον and the adjective βαπτός appear occasionally. The usage of these words in a religious sense is rare apart from Judaism and Christianity. Without being exhaustive I will cite enough examples to show representative usage. 2
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