The Jewish Context of Jesus' Miracles

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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. The present study supplies that lack 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.

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"...cautious, balanced, and full." -Graham H. Twelftree, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, September 2004 * Evangelical Theological Society *

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