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Miracle Workers and Magicians in the Acts of the Apostles

  • Hardback
  • 298 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

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For readers interested in Greco-Roman narratives

Clarifies confusion between miracles and magic

You will gain deeper insight into ancient beliefs

This insightful book explores the distinction between miracle-workers and magicians in the Acts of the Apostles.

Miracle-workers and magicians are difficult characters for contemporary readers of Greco-Roman narratives to comprehend and to distinguish. Hindered both by our modern definitions of "miracle" and "magic", we need to focus our attention on those ancient texts that deal with such characters and their differentiation. Two such texts, the Acts of the Apostles and Philostratus' "Life of Apollonius", come from quite different religious backgrounds, but demonstrate remarkably similar subtle cultural scripts at play. A detailed investigation of the social interactions in these two narrative worlds brings these characters and their communities alive and reveals how legitimate miracle-workers were distinguished from illegitimate magicians by the Mediterranean population of the Greco-Roman world.

  • Title

    Miracle Workers and Magicians in the Acts of the Apostles

  • Author

    Andy Reimer

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    December 2002

  • Weight

    573g

  • Page Count

    298

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780826462107

  • ISBN-10

    0826462103

  • Eden Code

    1164051

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