The baptism which the pagans are invited to accept (165) is the Jewish baptism of proselytes; the passage is modeled, moreover, on Isa. i. 16.The Fifth Sibylline. Book v., one of the best of the entire collection, consists of several Jewish passages and brief Christian additions. The ...
The Baptism of the proselyte has for its purpose his cleansing from the impurity of idolatry, and the restoration to the purity of a new-born man. This may be learned from the Talmud (Soṭah 12b) in regard to Pharaoh's daughter, whose bathing in the Nile is explained by Simon b. ...
He reaches back to the washing rites in Greco-Roman paganism and to Jewish purification practices before Christianity as well as to Jewish proselyte baptism... E Ferguson 被引量: 0发表: 2012年 Thinking about Belonging in Early Rabbinic Literature: Proselytes, Apostates, and “Children of Israel...
In the Codex Justinianus (i. 9, 10) physicians were prohibited from performing the operation on Roman citizens who had become converts to Judaism.Circumcision Not a Sacrament. Unlike Christian baptism, circumcision, however important it may be, is not a sacrament which gives the Jew his ...
God resurrected him, and our sins are washed away through baptism (emersion). “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” Act 2:38 “He that believe...
polemics, for instance, that in Ashkenaz (I refer to northernand eastern Europe asacollective), wherethere was much Christian pressure onJewsand active persecutions, forced baptisms,blood libels and expulsions, there wereal-most noJewishpolemicalcompositions, let alone the use ofrationalist arguments...
Under the Visigoths. Sisebut decreed the first persecution of the Jews in Spain. Whether he was influenced by Emperor Heraclius, or whether the clergy brought it about, is unknown, but he ordered that within a year all Jews should either submit to baptism or leave the Visigothic kingdom ...
and then join him in the rite of bathing [baptism]; for, said he, thus would baptism be acceptable to Him [God] if they would use it not simply for the putting away of certain sins [comp. II. Sam. xi. 4] or in the case of proselytes [see Soṭah 12b; comp. Gen. R. i....
16. Jews of York slay themselves in order to avoid baptism, 1190. 17. Napoleon institutes the system of consistories in France, 1808. Jacques-François-Fromenthal-Elie Halévy, composer, died, 1862. Judah P. Benjamin becomes secretary of war of the Confederacy of America, 1862. 18. Leopol...
, was originally a manual of instruction used for the initiation of proselytes in the Synagogue, and was converted later into a Christian manual and ascribed to Jesus and the Apostles. To it were added rules concerning baptism, fasting, and prayer, the benedictions over the wine and the ...