Follow the link below to what, in my experience, is the most lengthy scholarly treatment of the relevant primary sources for the meaning of baptizein (“baptize”) availablable. The article just appeared online for free, though it was published in 2011:
Eckhard Schnabel, “The Meaning of Baptizein in Greek, Jewish, and Patristic Literature,” Filologia Neotestamentaria 24 (2011) 3-40.
No coherent discussion of this term (and baptism) can exclude the data of this article.
Mike,
That was excellent! But I was wondering how to go about downloading it as a PDF, so as to safe it for future use. I couldn’t figure out how to do it, all the links and download options didn’t yield anything. I know you aren’t the most tech savvy (neither am I), but do you know how I can acquire the PDF?
That’s the drawback of that journal site — you’d have to make screen captures, put them into a Word doc, and then convert that to PDF.
Well that’s a lot of effort. Looks like there is a task ahead of me. Thanks Dr. Heiser. By the by I started in on ‘The Unseen Realm’. It helps to have read most everything on your website already.