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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...

First, healing and exorcism were, perhaps, the only type of miracles available to Jesus. Secondly, he was nevertheless an extraordinarily gifted healer and exorcist who, even more than Pedrito Jaramillo, excelled among the folk-healers of his time. Thirdly, he understood this gift as an even greater empowerment by God’s spirit than that of the great prophets of old. This experience of divine empowerment (coupled with a special sense of a close relationship with God) prompted Jesus to reinterpret,
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