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The social class of the Baptist: Dissident retainer or peasant millennialist?
2004
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
In this article the Baptist is compared with the upper-class/literate millennialists behind the Psalms of Solomon, the Testament of Moses, the Similitudes of 1 Enoch, and the Qumran scrolls on the one hand, and with the lower-class/illiterate millennialist movements in Josephus on the other hand. The argument is developed in constant dialogue with the analyses of John Dominic Crossan. After an initial statement of historical facts about the Baptist, these are compared with the named groups in
doi:10.4102/hts.v60i1/2.506
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