Ablution, Initiation, and Baptism: Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity

Published by De Gruyter 2011

Ablution, Initiation, and Baptism

Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity

Edited by: David Hellholm , Tor Vegge , Øyvind Norderval and Christer Hellholm

Volume 176 in the series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110247534

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About this book

In the web of cultural processes of late antiquity ablution rites and initiation rites were performed in different forms and in different contexts. Such rites existed in Early Judaism and Greco-Roman cults and were also applied in early Christianity under the label “baptism”, however, not as one fixed rite uniformly performed and interpreted. Baptismal rites developed diversely corresponding to the diversity among Christian groups of which some later came to be perceived as heretical.
Remains of art, architecture and texts from these contexts were discussed in two conferences gathering scholars who are excellent within their respective fields: text studies, studies of rites, archaeology, architecture, history of art, and cultural anthropology. These different fields of research have in recent years generated new knowledge that is relevant for the discussion of ablution and initiation rites and their function in late antiquity. At the same time interests of research have altered in favour of a growing cooperation across discipline borders.
The present volumes are the outcome of two conferences in Rome 2008 and at Metochi (Lesbos) 2009.

With over 50 articles, the most comprehensive work on the topic to date
More than one hundred, mostly color photos and drawings
Handbook-like character

Author / Editor information

David Hellholm, University of Oslo, Norway; Tor Vegge, University of Agder, Norway; Øyvind Norderval, University of Oslo, Norway; Christer Hellholm, Karlstad, Sweden.

Reviews

"Together, the three volumes provide an unparalleled interdisciplinary resource to which scholars will turn for years to come."
James A. Kelhoffer in: Svensk exegetisk Årbok 81 (2016)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Introduction/Einführung
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XLV
Einführung Christoph Markschies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XLIX
Part/Teil I: Methodological Considerations/Methodische Überlegungen
Rituals of Purification, Rituals of Initiation. Phenomenological, Taxonomical and Culturally Evolutionary Reflections Anders Klostergaard Petersen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Part/Teil II: Religions of Late Antiquity – Outside of Judaism and Christianity/Religionen in der Spätantike – Außerhalb von Judentum und Christentum
Wasserriten im Alten Ägypten Jan Assmann and Andrea Kucharek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
The Mandean Water Ritual in Late Antiquity Anders Hultgård Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Baptism and Graeco-Roman Mystery Cults Fritz Graf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Baptism in Sethian Gnostic Texts Birger A. Pearson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Initiationsriten im Manichäismus Gregor Wurst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Part/Teil III: Early Judaism/Frühjudentum
Aus dem Wasser kommt das Leben. Waschungen und Reinigungsriten in frühjüdischen Texten Antje Labahn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Jewish Immersion and Christian. Baptism Continuity on the Margins? Seán Freyne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
“Echo of a Whisper”. The Uncertain Authenticity of Josephus’ Witness to John the Baptist Clare K. Rothschild Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
„Ist er heraufgestiegen, gilt er in jeder Hinsicht als ein Israelit“ (bYev 47b). Das Proselytentauchbad im frühen Judentum Dieter Sänger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Part/Teil IV: Earliest Christianity/Urchristentum
Kreative Erinnerung als nachösterliche Nachschöpfung. Der Ursprung der christlichen Taufe Michael Labahn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Jesus’ Baptism and the Origins of the Christian Ritual Hans Dieter Betz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Usages — Some Notes on the Baptismal Name-Formulae Lars Hartman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397
Vorgeformte Tauftraditionen und deren Benutzung in den Paulusbriefen David Hellholm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415
Baptismal Phrases in the Deuteropauline Epistles Tor Vegge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	497
Die Taufe in der Apostelgeschichte Jens Schröter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	557
Baptism in the Letter to the Hebrews Samuel Byrskog Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	587
Because of “The Name of Christ”. Baptism and the Location of Identity in 1 Peter Halvor Moxnes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	605
Salbung, Geist und Taufe im 1. Johannesbrief Udo Schnelle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	629
Matthew 28:9–20 and Mark 16:9–20. Different Ways of Relating Baptism to the Joint Mission of God, John the Baptist, Jesus, and their Adherents Kirsten Marie Hartvigsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	655
Baptismal Reflections in the Fourth Gospel Turid Karlsen Seim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	717
Hermeneutische Aspekte der Taufe im Neuen Testament Oda Wischmeyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	735
Part/Teil V: The Patristic Period/Die patristische Periode
Zur frühchristlichen Taufpraxis. Die Taufe in der Didache, bei Justin und in der Didaskalia Andreas Lindemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	767
Taufinterpretationen bei Ignatius und im Barnabasbrief. Christologische und soteriologische Deutungen Dietrich-Alex Koch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	817
The Teaching on Baptism in the Shepherd of Hermas Vemund Blomkvist Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	849
Taufe bei Marcion – eine Spurensuche Eve-Marie Becker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	871
Baptism among the Valentinians Einar Thomassen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	895
Initiation/Baptism in the Montanist Movement William Tabbernee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	917
Simplicity and Power. Tertullian’s De Baptismo Øyvind Norderval Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	947
Baptism in Clement of Alexandria Henny Fiskå Hägg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	973
More Than Initiation? Baptism According to Origen of Alexandria Gunnar af Hällström Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	989
Initiation in the Apostolic Tradition Anders Ekenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1011
Die Tauftheologie Cyprians. Beobachtungen zu ihrer Entwicklungsgeschichte und schrifthermeneutischen Begründung Enno Edzard Popkes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1051
Taufvorstellungen in den Pseudoklementinen Jürgen Wehnert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1071
„Taufe“ und „untertauchen“ in Aphrahats taḥwyāṯā Michael Lattke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1115
Baptismal Mystery in St. Ephrem the Syrian and Hymnen de Epiphania Serafim Seppälä Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1139
The Catechetical Lectures of Cyril of Jerusalem. A Source for the Baptismal Liturgy of Mid-Fourth Century Jerusalem Juliette Day Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1179
Baptism in Gregory of Nyssa’s Theology and Its Orientation to Eschatology Ilaria L. E. Ramelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1205
Johannes Chrysostomus: Die zehn Gaben (τιμαί oder δωρεαί) der Taufe Rudolf Brändle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1233
Ambrose and Augustine. Two Bishops on Baptism and Christian Identity Reidar Aasgaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1253
The Efficacy of Baptism in Augustine’s Theology J. Patout Burns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1283
Der Streit über die Wirkung der Taufe im frühen Mönchtum. Die Taufe bei Makarios/Symeon, Markos Eremites und den Messalianern Otmar Hesse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1305
Baptism in the Monasteries of Upper Egypt. The Pachomian Corpus and the Writings of Shenoute Hugo Lundhaug Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1347
Part/Teil VI: Thematic Surveys/Thematische Darstellungen
Taufrituale im frühen Christentum und in der Alten Kirche. Historische und ritualwissenschaftliche Perspektiven Christian Strecker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1383
Seal and Baptism in Early Christianity Karl Olav Sandnes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1441
Taufe und Taufeucharistie. Die postbaptismale Mahlgemeinschaft in Quellen des 2. und 3. Jahrhunderts Hans-Ulrich Weidemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1483
Kindertaufe im frühen Christentum. Beobachtungen an den neutestamentlichen Apokryphen Hermut Löhr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1531
Das Taufbekenntnis in der frühen Kirche Reinhart Staats Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1553
Part/Teil VII: Archaeology and Art History/Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte
Understanding the Structures of Early Christian Baptisteries Olof Brandt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1587
Neues zu den alt- und neutestamentlichen Darstellungen im Baptisterium von Dura-Europos Dieter Korol and Jannike Rieckesmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1611
Baptismal Practices at North African Martyrs’ Shrines Robin M. Jensen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1673
Die Entwicklung der Taufbecken in der Spätantike Hannah Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1697
‘I understand the mystery, and I recognize the sacrament.’ On the Iconology of Ablution, Baptism, and Initiation Diane Apostolos-Cappadona Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1721
The Poetics and Politics of Christian Baptism in the Abercius Monument Margaret M. Mitchell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1743
Part/Teil VIII: Appendix
Images and Illustrations/Abbildungen und Illustrationen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1785
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1887
List of Technical Terms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1889
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1893
Editors and Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	2019

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Languages: English, German
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 96
- Main content: 2024
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 100
Keywords: Ablution; Initiation; Baptism; Rite

eBook

Published: July 27, 2011
ISBN: 9783110247534

Hardcover

Published: July 18, 2011
ISBN: 9783110247510