Jesus, Magician or Miracle Worker?

• Authors: Graham H. Twelftree

Title variants

IT

Jesus, Magician or Miracle Worker?

PL

Jesus, Magician or Miracle Worker?

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

This paper sets out to answer the question, was Jesus considered a magician? And if so, why? In the face of a current inconclusive debate, using unsuitable definitions of magic, and likely entangled with twenty-first-century definitions, the second-century data is engaged to help re-sensitize a reading of the gospel data. There are clear charges of magic in the second century that enable twenty-first-century readers to see that observers of Jesus’ ministry charged him with magic, but not for the reasons usually assumed. Some contemporary implications of this study are taken up in a contemporary coda.

IT

This paper sets out to answer the question, was Jesus considered a magician? And if so, why? In the face of a current inconclusive debate, using unsuitable definitions of magic, and likely entangled with twenty-first-century definitions, the second-century data is engaged to help re-sensitize a reading of the gospel data. There are clear charges of magic in the second century that enable twenty-first-century readers to see that observers of Jesus’ ministry charged him with magic, but not for the reasons usually assumed. Some contemporary implications of this study are taken up in a contemporary coda.

Keywords

EN

Beelzebul Controversy; Charismatics; defining magic; Jesus; magic; miracle worker; Pentecostals

PL

Beelzebul Controversy; Charismatics; defining magic; Jesus; magic; miracle worker; Pentecostals

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
• Journal: The Biblical Annals
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 405-436

Dates

published

2020-06-15

Contributors

author

Graham H. Twelftree

• London School of Theology, London, UK

Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/biban.9769