Signs, Wonders, and Gifts: Divination in the Letters of Paul - Couverture rigide

Eyl, Jennifer

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0190924659 ISBN 13 : 9780190924652

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2019

Synopsis

In much of the scholarship on Paul, activities such as speaking in tongues, prophecy, and miracle healings are either ignored or treated as singular occurrences. Typically, these practices are categorized in such a way that shields Paul and his followers from the influence of so-called paganism. In Signs, Wonders, and Gifts, Jennifer Eyl masterfully argues that Paul did, in fact, engage in range of divinatory and wonder-working practices that were widely recognized and accepted across the ancient Mediterranean. Eyl redescribes, reclassifies, and recontextualizes Paul's repertoire vis-à-vis such widespread, similar practices. Situating these activities within the larger framework of reciprocity that dominated human-divine relationships in antiquity, she demonstrates that divine powers and divine communication were bestowed as benefactions toward Paul and his gentile followers in proportion to their faithfulness and loyalty.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jennifer Eyl is Assistant Professor of Religion at Tufts University. She is the co-editor of Christian Tourist Attractions, Mythmaking, and Identity Formation and has published articles in Method and Theory in the Study of Religion and the Journal for the Study of the New Testament.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0190924659
• ISBN 13: 9780190924652
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
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