Miracles revisited
Subtitle: New Testament miracle stories and their concepts of reality
By: edited by Stefan Alkier and Annette Weissenrieder
Series: Studies of the Bible and its reception -- v. 2; Studies of the Bible and its reception -- v. 2.
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9783110295924; 9783110296372
Subjects: Miracles; Bibel; Bible; Rezeption; Biblical teaching; Wunderheilung; Criticism, interpretation; Wundergeschichte; Reality
Description: The book revisits New Testament and other miracle stories with regard to three dimensions: 1. It proposes to connect the interpretation of miracle stories to concepts of reality. 2. It emphasizes the political implications of miracle stories and their interpretations. 3. It demands to read miracle stories within its contexts. The book addresses how ancient concepts of reality, always complex, come to expression in stories of miraculous healings and their reception in medicine, art, literature, theology and philosophy, from classic antiquity to the Middle Ages.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "For nothing will be impossible with God" (Luke 1:37): The Reality of "The Feeding the Five Thousand" (Luke 9:10-17) in the Universe of Discourse of Luke's Gospel / Stefan Alkier; title: Miracles of Judgment in Luke-Acts / Michael Rydryck; title: Epiphany Reconsidered: A Parallel Reading of Acts 9:1-9 and Iliad 188-224a / Philip Erwin; title: Of Dogs and Women: Ethology and Gender in Ancient Healing. The Canaanite Woman's Story; title: Matt 15:21-28 / Elaine M. Wainwright; title: Stories Just Under the Skin: lepra in the Gospel of Luke / Annette Weissenrieder; title: Miracle and Natural Cause in Galen / Teun Tieleman; title: The Physiology of Spirit in the Reformation: Medical Consensus and Protestant Theologians / Christopher Ocker; title: Disability and the Terror of the Miracle Tradition / Sharon Betcher; title: Miracle and Eschatology in Two African American Slave Narratives and the Spirituals: From 'Orality' to Text / James A. Noel; title: Cultural Translation: The Fig Tree and Politics of Representation under Nero in Rome (Mark 11:13-15, 19-20; Matthew 21:18-19; Luke 13:1-9) / Annette Weissenrieder; title: Imperial Miracles and Elitist Discourses / Hartmut Leppin; title: The Healing Christ in Early Christian Funeral Art: The Example of the Frescoes at Domitilla Catacomb/Rome / Norbert Zimmermann; title: The Rhetoric of Violence and Healing in the Church of Prophites Elias in Thessaloniki / Rossitza Schroeder; title: The Wondrous World of the Cinema: Types of Depictions of the Miraculous in Jesus Films / Stefan Alkier; title: Miracles Revisited. A Short Theological and Historical Survey / Stefan Alkier, David Moffitt; title: New Testament Healing Narratives and the Category of Numinous Power / Werner Kahl; title: The Concept of Miracle and the Concepts of Reality. Some Provisional Remarks / Heiko Schulz; title: Marvels, Miracles, Signs and the Real: Peirce's Semiotics in Religion and Art / Hermann Deuser.