The Jewish Context of Jesus' Miracles

Scholarly literature on Jesus has often attempted to relate his miracles to their Jewish context, but that context has not been surveyed in its own right. This volume fills that gap by examining both the ideas on miracle in Second Temple literature (including Josephus, Philo, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha) and the evidence for contemporary Jewish miracle workers. The penultimate chapter explores insights from cultural anthropology to round out the picture obtained from the literary evidence, and the study concludes that Jesus is distinctive as a miracle-worker in his Jewish context while nevertheless fitting into it.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Eric Eve is Fellow and Tutor in Theology at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, UK.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Eric Eve
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.08.2002
• EAN: 9781841273150
• ISBN: 978-1-84127-315-0
• Seiten: 440
• Serie: The Library of New Testament Studies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Judentum; RELIGION / Christianity / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, RELIGION / Biblical Meditations / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Christianity, Jewish Studies, Bible readings, selections & meditations, Bible readings, selections and meditations, The historical Jesus, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities