medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
At 05:18 PM 4/29/2004 +0000, Edwin Hewitt wrote:
>Edwin replies:
>Anabaptist = no or without baptism
Is this an etymology? On what is it based? In light of the well-attested
Greek 'anabaptizein' = 'baptize again, rebaptize' (i.e., ana' + baptizein),
why should we credit it?
Philologically perplexed,
John Dillon
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