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  2. Baptism in early Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Although the term "baptism" is not today used to describe the Jewish rituals (in contrast to New Testament times, when the Greek word baptismos did indicate Jewish ablutions or rites of purification), [1] [2] the purification rites (or mikvah—ritual immersion) in Jewish law and tradition are similar to baptism, and the two have been linked.

  3. Reformed baptismal theology - Wikipedia

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    Baptism does everything for New Testament Christians that circumcision did for Jews in the Old Testament. [47] Circumcision is seen as a ritual where God's judgement passes over the person circumcised, only to cut off a part of the flesh, sparing the rest of the person.

  4. List of inscriptions in biblical archaeology - Wikipedia

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    List of proposed Assyrian references to Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) Model of Jerusalem in the Late 2nd Temple Period; Near Eastern archaeology; Nag Hammadi library – early Christian gnostic papyri. Non-canonical books referenced in the Bible; Oxyrhynchus Papyri – collection of Old and New Testament papyri, Apocryphal works and works of Philo

  5. History of baptism - Wikipedia

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    Whether the earliest Christians practiced infant baptism, and thus whether modern Christians should do so, has remained a subject of debate between Christian scholars [49] at least since the earliest clear reference to the practice by Tertullian in the early third century. Some claim that Biblical baptism can be interpreted and thus relative ...

  6. Acts 1 - Wikipedia

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    Acts 1 is the first chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke. [1]

  7. Four senses of Scripture - Wikipedia

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    Noah and the "baptismal flood" of the Old Testament (top panel) is "typologically linked" with (it prefigures) the baptism of Jesus in the New Testament (bottom panel). The four senses of Scripture is a four-level method of interpreting the Bible. In Christianity, the four senses are literal, allegorical, tropological and anagogical.

  8. Glossary of Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Proselyte – an anglicization of the Koine Greek term προσήλυτος (proselytos), as used in the Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) for "stranger", i.e. a "newcomer to Israel"; [11] a "sojourner in the land", [12] and in the Greek New Testament [13] for a first century convert to Judaism, generally from Ancient Greek religion.

  9. Ephesians 1 - Wikipedia

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    Ephesians 1 is the first chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.Traditionally, it is believed to have been written by Apostle Paul while he was in prison in Rome (around AD 62), but more recently, it has been suggested that it was written between AD 80 and 100 by another writer using Paul's name and style.