Cover; JOHN THE BAPTIST IN HISTORY AND THEOLOGY; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 The Competition Hypothesis; CHAPTER 2 Qumran; CHAPTER 3 The Elijah Role; CHAPTER 4 Baptism; CHAPTER 5 Jesus; CHAPTER 6 Herod Antipas; Conclusion; APPENDIX 1 The Chronology of John's Life; APPENDIX 2 Is Josephus's Account of John the Baptist a Christian Interpolation?; APPENDIX 3 Database by Source of Information about John the Baptist in the Canonical Gospels and Josephus; APPENDIX 4 Was John from a Priestly Background?
APPENDIX 5 The "Others" in Josephus, Antiquities 18.118APPENDIX 6 Knut Backhaus's Interpretation of Acts 19:1-7; APPENDIX 7 The "Day-Baptists"; APPENDIX 8 John the Baptist's Use of Isaiah 40:3; APPENDIX 9 The Baptist in the Slavonic Version of Josephus's Jewish War; APPENDIX 10 Apocalyptic Belief and Perfectionism; APPENDIX 11 The Meaning of "Purification" in John 3:25; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; NOTES; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS; SUBJECT INDEX; INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES
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An analysis that challenges the conventional Christian hierarchy of John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth.