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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Old Testament miracle-workers in early Judaism
  name:
    name part: Koskenniemi, Erkki.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 356 pages ; 24 cm.
  table of contents: Introduction. Preliminary definition of the task ; What is a "miracle"? ; Competing miracle-workers and a story about a modern category ; Jewish miracle-workers in religious-historical study ; A more precise definition of the task and method -- Miracles and the glorious past : the wisdom of Ben Sira. Moses ; Joshua ; Elijah ; Elisha ; Isaiah -- Miracles and the war between powers : The book of jubilees. Abraham ; Moses -- Dramatic miracles : Ezekiel the tragedian. The dialogue at the burning bush ; The plagues told in advance ; The miracle at the Red Sea ; A miracle worker--but how much more? -- Miracles in popular historiography : Artapanus. The leader is called ; The return, plagues and freedom ; The Red Sea and the desert -- Miracles in literal and allegorical interpretation : Philo. The literal interpretation of the miracle stories ; The allegorical interpretation of the miracle stories ; Miracles explained rationally? ; Miracles of the prophet ; God or Moses? ; Miracles and legitimisation -- Many miracles : the lives of the prophets. Isaiah ; Jeremiah ; Ezekiel ; Daniel ; Elijah ; Elisha -- Militant miracles : Liber antiquitatum biblicarum. Moses ; Joshua ; Kenaz ; Excursus : magical practices in L.A.B. ; Samson; David ; Elijah/Phinehas -- Toning down the miracles? : Josephus. Moses ; Joshua ; Samson ; Solomon ; Elijah ; Elisha -- Conclusion. LXX ; The texts retold ; The themes ; The Greek influence ; Biases and functions of the miracle stories ; The audience ; The roles of God and man and Moses' extraordinary position ; Geography and chronology.
  note: Erkki Koskenniemi.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-319) and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Miracles
    topic: Biblical teaching
  subject:
    topic: Miracle workers
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible
      part name: Old Testament
    topic: History of Biblical events
  subject:
    topic: Jewish literature
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible
      part name: A.T
    topic: Histoire des événements bibliques
  subject:
    topic: Thaumaturges
  subject:
    topic: Littérature juive
    topic: Histoire et critique
  classification: BS1186 .K67 2005
  classification: 231.73
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 206
      part number: 2. Reihe
  identifier: 3161486048 (pbk.)
  identifier: 9783161486043 (pbk.)
  identifier: 2006374768
  record info:
    record content source: OHX
    record creation date: 051209
    record change date: 20151108085757.0
    record identifier: in00002361966