Smoke & mirrors : discourses of magic in early Petrine traditions /
'Smoke & Mirrors' how magic disappears & miracle emerges in a series of texts featuring the apostle Peter. Considering the contradiction of early Christian authors' approval of seemingly magical practices, such as exorcisms, Shaily Shashikant Patel examines the impact this tre...
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Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: "Magic" and Early Petrine Literary Traditions
- Making Magic: Definitions of Magic in the Study of Early Christianity
- (Not) Another Definition of Magic: Magic in the Graeco-Roman Imagination
- Excursus: Apuleius' Apology: A Case Study in Word and Deed
- Petrine Literature's "Magic Problem"
- Why "Magic"?
- Why Petrine Literary Traditions?
- Caveats and Conclusions
- 1 Magic and the Making of Miracles in the Gospel of Luke
- Jesus the Magician? The Rhetoric of Lucan Miracle
- Making Miracle: Lucan Redaction of Mark
- Divine Power and Authority: Circumscribing Christian Miracle
- Sēmeia and Terata: Taxonomies of Miracle
- Jesus the Messiah and Prophet: Lucan Redescription of Magical Practices
- A Wonderworker Is as a Wonderworker Says: Prophecy, Messiahship, and Magic
- A Wonderworker Who Delivers: Jesus' Fulfillment of Eschatological Promises
- Fulfillment of Physical Promises
- Metaphysical Fulfillment of Promises
- Promise or Punishment? Luke's Metaphysical Dualism
- A Wonderworker to Believe In: Faith and Magical Practices
- Messiahs, Magicians, and Prophets
- The Origins of Petrine Magic
- 2 Magic and the Making of a Jesus Movement in the Canonical Acts
- Peter the Apostle: Dunamis, Exousia, and the Rhetoric of Wonderworking in Acts
- Excursus: Lucan Consolidation of Supernatural Agents and Expansion of Divine Dunamis
- Peter the Apostle: Wonderworking and the Establishment of Apostolic Authority
- Simon the Magician: Wonderworking and Usurpation
- Making a Movement: Redescription of Magical Practices in Acts
- A Christ-like Leader: Jesus-Peter Parallels in Wonderworking
- Group Boundaries, Community Rules, and Wonderworking.
- Wonderworking That Works: Group Benefits and Community Cohesion
- Petrine Wonderworking and Christian Beginnings
- 3 Magic and the Making of (a) Christianity in the Acts of Peter
- An Apostle, a Seducer, and the Lapsed: The Rhetoric of Wonderworking in the Acts of Peter
- Seeing Is Believing: A Deeds-Driven Christian Orthodoxy
- Peter and the Terrible Power of Christ
- A Better Magician: The Superiority of Petrine Wonderworking
- Simon, the Diabolical Seducer
- Simon and the Power of Carmina
- Simon, the Young God
- Forgiveness, Conversion, and Redescription of Magical Practices in the Acts of Peter
- Petrine Wonderworking and Conversion
- Petrine Wonderworking and Forgiveness
- The Acts of Peter and Literary Trajectories of Christian Wonderworking
- 4 Magic and the Making of Heresy in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies
- True and False Knowledge: The Rhetoric of Magic-Heresy in the Homilies
- The Genealogies of True Prophecy and Magic-Heresy
- The Genealogy of True Prophecy
- The Genealogy of Magic-Heresy
- The Apostle of True Knowledge: Peter and Epistemic Authority
- Peter and the Unchanging, Ahistorical Truth
- Peter and the Revealed Truth
- The Scion of Epistemic Error: Simon and Magic-Heresy
- Peter the Truth-Teller and Simon the Heretic: Redescription of Magical Practices in the Homilies
- Peter the Truth-Teller
- Simon the Heretic
- Magic, Heresy, and Late Antiquity
- Coda: Lives and Afterlives of Petrine "Magic"
- Bibliography
- Index.