The origin of the New Testament metaphor of rebirth
Part I deals with the imagery of rebirth in Hellenism. The metaphor was widely-used in the common speech - we collect over 280 examples - and it is therefore possible that the New Testament writers drew their rebirth imagery from the common speech. But there is not one text which proves that in pre-...
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University of Aberdeen
1981
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