id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt zs25x63621p Teresa Leann Reeve Luke 3:1–4:15 and the Rite of Passage in Ancient Literature: Liminality and Transformation 2007 .txt text/plain 311 9 43 This study explores ways in which the anthropological model of rite of passage is useful for interpreting the portrayal of Jesus' baptism and wilderness experience in Luke 3:1–4:15, and for considering the place of this account in the narrative of Luke-Acts. After considering recent interpretations of the place of the passage in the work of Luke-Acts, a review of the last one hundred years of rite of passage studies and their application to biblical text provides the groundwork for establishing the approach of the study. cache/zs25x63621p.txt txt/zs25x63621p.txt