Contest and community: wonder-working in Christian popular literature from the second to the fifth centuries CE

<p>In this thesis, I hope to demonstrate that what I call the magic contest tradition, that is the episodes of competitive wonder-working that appear in a wide variety of apocryphal and non-canonical Christian texts, made an important contribution to the development of Christian thought during...

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Main Authors: Schwartzman, L, Lauren J. Schwartzman
Other Authors: Morgan, T
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2013
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