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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...

‘The altar shall be broken in an instant and all the fat of the victims on it shall be spilled upon the ground’ (Ant. 8.232). Not only does this duly take place, but Jeroboam’s hand becomes paralysed when he stretches it out to order Jadon’s arrest. Subsequently, however, a false prophet argues that these supposed signs have a natural explanation: Jeroboam’s hand had been temporally numbed by the fatigue of carrying the sacrifice, and the new altar had collapsed under the weight of the things placed
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