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Baptism or Temple Initiation?

Insights from Margaret Barker’s Temple Themes in Christian Worship: Part IV  In this post I will be looking at Chapter 5 of Temple Themes, entitled “Baptism and Resurrection.” In this chapter, Barker gives evidence that shows how Christian baptism was not simply an imitation of contemporary Jewish conversion rites, but had its roots in the much more [...]
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