Luc a-t-il puisé ses informations sur l'enfance de Jean-Baptiste dans un document provenant de cercles johannites, disciples du Précurseur? Beaucoup le pensent, et cette opinion se Présente volontiers comme une solution acquise, qui n'a plus besoin d'être prouvée.1. Il me semble pourtant qu'elle est discutable et je me propose dans cette communication de l'examiner.

An important aspect of messianism among the Covenanters is the presence of messianically charged variants in the complete Qumran Isaiah Scroll (IQIsa). This was first pointed out by D. Barthélemy,1 but the most complete study of the subject has been by John V. Chamberlain.2 The most outstanding passage is probably not the reading ‘anointed’ (for ‘marred’) in Isa. lii. 14 (because of possible equivocation),3 but rather Isa. li. 4–5:4

This article is an attempt to trace the course of events in the closing stages of Paul's ministry in Asia. I have in mind the period described in Acts xix. 2I-xx. I; viewed from another angle, it is the period following the writing of I Corinthians.