Signs, Wonders, and Gifts
Subtitle: Divination in the Letters of Paul
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780190924652
Description: Throughout his letters, the apostle Paul consistently references signs, wonders, visions, miracles, divine healings, prophecies, and speaking in tongues. This book examines Paul's repertoire of divinatory and wonderworking practices and contextualizes them in their historical milieu. Furthermore, the book situates such practices within a framework of reciprocity that dominated human-divine relationships in antiquity. Insofar as Paul extends miraculous abilities to his gentile followers, these wondrous abilities come in proportion to their faithfulness.