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Miracle and Magic : a Study in the Act of the Apostles and the Life of Apollonius of Tyana.
Miracle-workers and magicians are diffcult characters for contemporary readers of Greco-Roman narratives to comprehend and to distinguish. Hindered both by our modern definitions of miracle and magic, we need to focus our attention on those ancient texts that deal with such characters and their diff...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Continuum International Pub. Group,
2002.
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| Colección: | Library of New Testament studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Miracle-workers and magicians are diffcult characters for contemporary readers of Greco-Roman narratives to comprehend and to distinguish. Hindered both by our modern definitions of miracle and magic, we need to focus our attention on those ancient texts that deal with such characters and their differentiation. Two such texts, the Acts of the Apostles and Philostratus' Life of Apollonius, come from quite different religious backgrounds, but demonstrate remarkably similar subtle cultural scripts at play. A detailed investigation of the social interactions in these two narrative worlds brings th. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (297 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780567008848 0567008843 |