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This work deals with biblical and intertestamental uses of covenant and related rituals, challenging the view that baptism replaces circumcision, since baptism is entry into the new covenant, and showing that ritual boundaries are replaced or redefined since identity has changed. The investigation uses social categories, ""identity"" as a term that offers an explanation for a group's self-understanding, and ""boundary"" as a term for entry rite of affirmation marker. The first part looks at the Old Testament background to aspects of the covenant. The next section examines covenant identity and rituals in Palestinian Judaism as featured in Jubilees, the Temple Scroll, the Damascus Document and the Community Rule. It includes a brief analysis of the baptism administered by John the Baptist. The final part analyzes Paul's views on covenant, circumcision and baptism against this background.

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Ellen Juhl Christiansen, Ph.D. (1994) in Theology, University of Durham, England, is Lecturer in New Testament, at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.

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