Archive for September 9th, 2007

Baptized Into “Judaism”

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

In the cultural milieu that Jesus and Paul (and John the Baptist for that matter) operated, water baptism already had a specific place and practice. It already had a defined modus operandi. To quote William Tighe, as cited here: Gentiles who converted to Judaism—in the case of men by “proselyte baptism” followed by circumcision, in [...]