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The Transfiguration of Jesus: Narrative Meaning and Function of Mark 9:2–8, Matt 17:1–8 and Luke 9:28–36 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is the first monograph devoted to all three accounts of the transfiguration of Jesus from a narrative-critical, audience-oriented perspective. It proposes a new literary genre designation for all three versions, that a “pivotal mandatory epiphany,” based upon the precedents in Numbers 22:31–35, Joshua 5:13–15, and 2 Maccabees 3:22–34. The background and meaning of each of the major motifs...

registered by the effect it has on nature. In this case, the trembling of the earth, the pouring forth of rain from the clouds in the heavens, and the quaking of the mountains demonstrate the second part of a theophany, the response of nature to the powerful coming of God.5 We define “vision” as a disposition of literary motifs which narrates the seeing by a privileged individual or group of supernatural phenomena located mainly in the heavenly realm. Whereas a theophany involves a coming
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