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090 $aBS2625.52$b.R456 2002
100 1 $aReimer, Andy M.$q(Andy Melford),$d1968-
245 10 $aMiracle and magic :$ba study in the Acts of the Apostles and the life of Apollonius of Tyanna /$cAndy M. Reimer.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bSheffield Academic Press,$cc2002.
300 $axiii, 277 p. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aJournal for the study of the New Testament.$pSupplement series ;$v235
500 $aRevision 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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-265) and indexes.
520 $aMiracle-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.
630 00 $aBible.$pN.T.$pActs$xCriticism, interpretation, etc.
600 00 $aApollonius,$cof Tyana
600 00 $aPhilostratus,$cthe Athenian,$d2nd/3rd cent.$tLife of Apollonius of Tyana.
650 0 $aMiracle workers.
650 0 $aMagicians.
630 04 $aBible.$pN.T$sActs.
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