Signs Wonders and Gifts

In much of the scholarship on Paul activities such as speaking in tongues prophecy and miracle healings are either ignored or treated as singular occurrences. Typically these practices are categorized in such a way that shields Paul and his followers from the influence of so-called paganism. In <em>Signs Wonders and Gifts</em> Jennifer Eyl masterfully argues that Paul did in fact engage in range of divinatory and wonder-working practices that were widely recognized and accepted across the ancient Mediterranean. Eyl redescribes reclassifies and recontextualizes Paul's repertoire vis-�-vis such widespread similar practices. Situating these activities within the larger framework of reciprocity that dominated human-divine relationships in antiquity she demonstrates that divine powers and divine communication were bestowed as benefactions toward Paul and his gentile followers in proportion to their faithfulness and loyalty.<br>