Miracle Discourse in the New Testament

This volume explores the rhetorical role that miracle discourse plays in the argumentation of the New Testament and early Christianity. The investigation includes both the rhetoric within miracle discourse and the rhetorical role of miracle discourse as it was incorporated into the larger works in which it is now a part. The volume also examines the social cultural religious political and ideological associations that miracle discourse had in the first-century Mediterranean world bringing these insights to bear on the broader questions of early Christian origins. The contributors are L. Gregory Bloomquist Wendy Cotter David A. deSilva Davina C. Lopez Gail O''Day Todd Penner Vernon K. Robbins and Duane F. Watson.