John the Baptist: prophet of purity for a new age

How did Gospel authors Matthew and Luke shape the story of John the Baptist around the story of Jesus? Why was the historical Baptist so popular? In John the Baptist: Prophet of Purity for a New Ag…

The friend of the bridegroom: on the Orthodox..

The Friend of the Bridegroom offers a compelling theological interpretation of John the Baptist as seen through the eyes of Eastern Orthodoxy. Written by Sergius Bulgakov, the greatest Russian theo…

John the loyal: studies in the ministry of the Baptist

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of th…

John the Baptist

Because four Gospels focus on Jesus, most readers of the New Testament have only a shadowy picture of John the Baptist. For them, as for the Gospel writers, he is merely a "voice crying in the wild…

A burning light: the life and ministry of John the Baptist

For a number of years Robert Matthews has studied the life of John the Baptist and has found him to be a figure of strength, courage, and humility-a man of widespread reputation in his own day, act…

His name is John

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978-0-7586-1262-5

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21 cm.

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232.94 ROT h

The immerser: John the baptist within..

Author refutes theories which associate John with the Essenes. He lived in the wilderness himself, but he sent people home after baptizing them; he was an ascetic, but the particular foods he rejec…

The cave of John the baptist: the first archeological..

The first archaeological evidence of the historical reality of the Gospel story. From a historical point of view, the uniqueness of this cave is that it contains archaeological evidence that comes …

John the baptist in the gospel tradition

Why is John the Baptist accorded such an important role in the Gospel tradition? Dr Wink examines the treatment of John in the Gospels, Acts and the Q source to establish why the evangelists were s…

John the baptizer and prophet: a socio-historical study

This volume, a revised version of a doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of Sheffield in 1990, places John the Baptist within his first-century Jewish context by exploring his public r…