Alkier / Weissenrieder Miracles Revisited

New Testament Miracle Stories and their Concepts of Reality
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-029637-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 422 Seiten

Reihe: Studies of the Bible and Its Reception (SBR)ISSN

Zielgruppe

Academics, Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alkier, Stefan

Weissenrieder, Annette

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;9
2;I Rereading New Testament Miracle Stories;11
2.1;“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;13
2.2;Miracles of Judgment in Luke-Acts;31
2.3;Epiphany Reconsidered: A Parallel Reading of Acts 9:1–9 and Iliad 188–224a;41
2.4;Of Dogs and Women: Ethology and Gender in Ancient Healing. The Canaanite Woman’s Story – Matt 15:21–28;63
3;II Miracle Stories and Medical Discourse;79
3.1;Stories Just Under the Skin: lepra in the Gospel of Luke;81
3.2;Miracle and Natural Cause in Galen;109
3.3;The Physiology of Spirit in the Reformation: Medical Consensus and Protestant Theologians;123
4;III Politics of Miracle Stories;167
4.1;Disability and the Terror of the Miracle Tradition;169
4.2;Miracle and Eschatology in Two African American Slave Narratives and the Spirituals: From ‘Orality’ to Text;191
4.3;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);209
4.4;Imperial Miracles and Elitist Discourses;241
5;IV Media of Miracles;257
5.1;The Healing Christ in Early Christian Funeral Art: The Example of the Frescoes at Domitilla Catacomb/Rome;259
5.2;The Rhetoric of Violence and Healing in the Church of Prophites Elias in Thessaloniki;283
5.3;The Wondrous World of the Cinema: Types of Depictions of the Miraculous in Jesus Films;301
6;V Rethinking the Miraculous;321
6.1;Miracles Revisited. A Short Theological and Historical Survey;323
6.2;New Testament Healing Narratives and the Category of Numinous Power;345
6.3;The Concept of Miracle and the Concepts of Reality. Some Provisional Remarks;359
6.4;Marvels, Miracles, Signs and the Real: Peirce’s Semiotics in Religion and Art;385
7;List of Contributors;399
8;Index of Subjects and Persons;403
9;Index of Biblical Sources;409
10;Index of Authors;415

Über Autor(innen)

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