Water’s Washing Power: An Introduction to Qumran Immersions and Christian...
On May 12th, 2002, I was baptized into Christianity. I awkwardly stood at the front of the congregation in my swim trunks and cut-off t-shirt while everyone else watched in their Sunday best. It wasn’t...
View ArticleBaptism Part 1: Ritual Immersion in “Common Judaism”…
My first time reading the Bible was spent in Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. I didn’t start with the New Testament at all; I started with the Torah. Thumbing back through those...
View ArticleBaptism Part 3: Ritual Immersion in the Dead Sea Scrolls…
Once I picked ritual immersion as a paper topic for my Dead Sea Scrolls class, I quickly discovered it’s a topic with a lot of material behind it. Specifically with the Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran,...
View ArticleBaptism Part 4: Common Judaism and Qumran…
After a month-long hiatus from baptism postings, I’ve decided to start them up again. Below is a condensed version of the second section of my Dead Sea Scrolls paper on ritual immersion. This is a long...
View ArticleBaptism Part 5: John the Baptist and Qumran…
Once again, I’ve taken a long break from this series (this time, two months), but I hope to finish them off by the end of this summer. If you haven’t read (or would like to re-read) any of the previous...
View ArticleBaptism Part 6: Immersions in the Greco-Roman World…
To read (or reread) the previous posts regarding baptism, here they are: Intro, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5. Please feel free to ask questions or leave comments on any of these posts....
View ArticleBaptism Part 7: Introduction to Christian Baptism…
Baptism gets interesting when it’s brought to Christianity. In the Dead Sea Scrolls, ritual immersion plays a major role in the belief system and practice at Qumran. But in the New Testament, there is...
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