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The Jewish Context of Jesus’ Miracles is unavailable, but you can change that!

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 miracles in Second Temple literature (including Josephus, Philo, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha) and the evidence for contemporary Jewish miracle workers. The...

contain substantial discussions of parts of Philo and Josephus, which often touch on these first-century writers’ treatment of miracle, and to that extent they are highly relevant to the present project; but, being restricted to the single issue of the ‘divine man’ they do not cover the entire field. Together, however, these authors build up an impressive case for dropping θεῖος ἀνήρ as a comparative category in discussing the miracles of Jesus. A comparative work of a rather different nature
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