Miracles Revisited: New Testament Miracle Stories and their Concepts of Reality

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Miracles Revisited

New Testament Miracle Stories and their Concepts of Reality

Edited by: Stefan Alkier and Annette Weissenrieder

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2013

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Volume 2 | Studies of the Bible and Its Reception (SBR)

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Since David Hume, the interpretation of miracle stories has been dominated in the West by the binary distinction of fact vs. fiction. The form-critical method added another restriction to the interpretation of miracles by neglecting the context of its macrotexts. Last but not least the hermeneutics of demythologizing was interested in the self-understanding of individuals and not in political perspectives.
The book revisits miracle stories with regard to these dimensions: 1. It demands to connect the interpretation of Miracle Stories to concepts of reality. 2. It criticizes the restrictions of the form critical method. 3. It emphasizes the political implications of Miracle Stories and their interpretations.
Even the latest research accepts this modern opposition of fact and fiction as self-evident. This book will examine critically these concepts of reality with interpretations of miracles. The book will address how concepts of reality, always complex, came to expression in stories of miraculous healings and their reception in medicine, art, literature, theology and philosophy, from classic antiquity to the Middle Ages. Only through such bygone concepts, contemporary interpretations of ancient healings can gain plausibility.

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Stefan Alkier, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M., Germany; Annette Weissenrieder, San Francisco Theological Seminary and Graduate Theological Union, CA, USA.

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Table of Contents
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Preface
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Stefan Alkier and Annette Weissenrieder

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I Rereading New Testament Miracle Stories
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“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
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Stefan Alkier

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Miracles of Judgment in Luke-Acts
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Michael Rydryck

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Epiphany Reconsidered: A parallel reading of Acts 9:1–9 and Iliad 188–224a
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Philip Erwin

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Of Dogs and Women: Ethology and Gender in Ancient Healing. The Canaanite Woman’s Story – Matt 15:21–28
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Elaine M. Wainwright

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II Miracle Stories and Medical Discourse
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Stories Just Under the Skin: lepra in the Gospel of Luke
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Annette Weissenrieder

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Miracle and Natural Cause in Galen
101
Teun Tieleman

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The Physiology of Spirit in the Reformation: Medical Consensus and Protestant Theologians
115
Christopher Ocker

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III Politics of Miracle Stories
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Disability and the Terror of the Miracle Tradition
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Sharon V. Betcher

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Miracle & Eschatology in Two African American Slave Narratives & the Spirituals: From ‘Orality’ to Text
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James A. Noel

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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)
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Annette Weissenrieder

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Imperial Miracles and Elitist Discourses
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Hartmut Leppin

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IV Media of Miracles
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The healing Christ in early Christian funeral art: The example of the frescoes at Domitilla catacomb/Rome
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Norbert Zimmermann

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The Rhetoric of Violence and Healing in the Church of Prophites Elias in Thessaloniki
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Rossitza Schroeder

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The Wondrous World of the Cinema: Types of Depictions of the Miraculous in Jesus Films
293
Stefan Alkier

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V Rethinking the Miraculous
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Miracles Revisited. A Short Theological and Historical Survey
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Stefan Alkier and David M. Moffitt

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New Testament Healing Narratives and the Category of Numinous Power
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Werner Kahl

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The Concept of Miracle and the Concepts of Reality. Some Provisional Remarks
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Heiko Schulz

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Marvels, Miracles, Signs and the Real: Peirce’s Semiotics in Religion and Art
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Hermann Deuser

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List of Contributors
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Index of Subjects and Persons
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Index of Biblical Sources
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Index of Authors
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eBook published on:

August 29, 2013

eBook ISBN:

9783110296372

Hardcover published on:

August 19, 2013

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110295924

Paperback published on:

June 20, 2016

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9783110487923

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8

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414

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110296372

eBook ISBN: 9783110296372

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110295924

Paperback ISBN: 9783110487923

Keywords for this book

Healing Miracles; Reception of the New Testament; Concepts of Reality; New Testament Methodology

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Miracles Revisited

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Supplementary Materials

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Preface

“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

Miracles of Judgment in Luke-Acts

Epiphany Reconsidered: A parallel reading of Acts 9:1–9 and Iliad 188–224a

Of Dogs and Women: Ethology and Gender in Ancient Healing. The Canaanite Woman’s Story – Matt 15:21–28

Stories Just Under the Skin: lepra in the Gospel of Luke

Miracle and Natural Cause in Galen

The Physiology of Spirit in the Reformation: Medical Consensus and Protestant Theologians

Disability and the Terror of the Miracle Tradition

Miracle & Eschatology in Two African American Slave Narratives & the Spirituals: From ‘Orality’ to Text

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)

Imperial Miracles and Elitist Discourses

The healing Christ in early Christian funeral art: The example of the frescoes at Domitilla catacomb/Rome

The Rhetoric of Violence and Healing in the Church of Prophites Elias in Thessaloniki

The Wondrous World of the Cinema: Types of Depictions of the Miraculous in Jesus Films

Miracles Revisited. A Short Theological and Historical Survey

New Testament Healing Narratives and the Category of Numinous Power

The Concept of Miracle and the Concepts of Reality. Some Provisional Remarks

Marvels, Miracles, Signs and the Real: Peirce’s Semiotics in Religion and Art

List of Contributors

Index of Subjects and Persons

Index of Biblical Sources

Index of Authors

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