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Miracle and Magic

Andy Reimer
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      Miracle-workers and magicians are difficult 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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Andy Reimer EAN: 9780826462107 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 580 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC DATE PUBLISHED: 2002-12-01 CITY: GENRE: RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Christianity, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

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      Andy Reimer is Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at the Canadian Bible College, Saskatchewan.
      Miracle-workers and magicians are difficult 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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Andy Reimer EAN: 9780826462107 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 580 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC DATE PUBLISHED: 2002-12-01 CITY: GENRE: RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Christianity, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

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      Andy Reimer is Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at the Canadian Bible College, Saskatchewan.

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