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Offering an extraordinary window on centuries of dialogue between the Bible and literature, this superb, unprecedented, and award-winning reference work is designed to help the modern reader understand how biblical motifs, concepts, names, quotations, and allusions have been transmitted through exegetical tradition and used by authors of English literature from the Middle Ages to the present. The...
In the NT it appears as a ritual washing of the body, signifying spiritual purification. OT forerunners of baptism are found mainly in the baths of ritual cleansing (e.g., Exod. 40:12; Lev. 11:32; Deut. 23:10–11; 2 Sam. 12:20) which were still in use at the time of Christ (Mark 7:2–4). NT writers and Church Fathers, however, found many types of baptism in the OT. Paul interprets the Exodus as one such foreshadowing (1 Cor. 10:2–11), and Peter understands the Flood as another (1 Pet. 3:20–21). Patristic
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