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