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Miracle-workers and magicians are diffcult 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.
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Bible, Criticism, interpretation, Magicians, Miracle workers, Magie, Magiciens, Wunder, Thaumaturges, Life of Apollonius of Tyana (Philostratus, the Athenian), Vita Apollonii (Philostratus), Wonderen, Apostelgeschichte, Critique, interprétation, Handelingen der Apostelen (bijbelboek), Apollonius, of tyana, Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., n. t. actsEdition | Availability |
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Miracle and magic: a study in the Acts of the Apostles and the life of Apollonius of Tyanna
2002, Sheffield Academic Press
in English
0826462103 9780826462107
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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D--University of Sheffield, 1999) under title: Miracle-workers and magicians in the Acts of the Apostle and Philostratus's Life of Apollonius of Tyana.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-265) and indexes.
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