Jesus, Magician or Miracle Worker?
This paper sets out to answer the question, was Jesus considered a magician? And if so, why? In the face of a current inconclusive debate, using unsuitable definitions of magic, and likely entangled with twenty-first-century definitions, the second-century data is engaged to help re-sensitize a read...
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The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
2020-06-01
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| description | This paper sets out to answer the question, was Jesus considered a magician? And if so, why? In the face of a current inconclusive debate, using unsuitable definitions of magic, and likely entangled with twenty-first-century definitions, the second-century data is engaged to help re-sensitize a reading of the gospel data. There are clear charges of magic in the second century that enable twenty-first-century readers to see that observers of Jesus’ ministry charged him with magic, but not for the reasons usually assumed. Some contemporary implications of this study are taken up in a contemporary coda. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2730e0134bf04611b4a58edc1fb463d72023-08-02T02:05:41ZdeuThe John Paul II Catholic University of LublinThe Biblical Annals2083-22222451-21682020-06-0110310.31743/biban.9769Jesus, Magician or Miracle Worker?Graham H. Twelftree0London School of Theology, London, UKThis paper sets out to answer the question, was Jesus considered a magician? And if so, why? In the face of a current inconclusive debate, using unsuitable definitions of magic, and likely entangled with twenty-first-century definitions, the second-century data is engaged to help re-sensitize a reading of the gospel data. There are clear charges of magic in the second century that enable twenty-first-century readers to see that observers of Jesus’ ministry charged him with magic, but not for the reasons usually assumed. Some contemporary implications of this study are taken up in a contemporary coda.https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/ba/article/view/9769Beelzebul ControversyCharismaticsdefining magicJesusmagicmiracle worker |
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