This book illustrates in detail the range of understandings of the human condition in New Testament times and remedies for ills that prevailed when Jesus and th
Miracle-workers and magicians are diffcult characters for contemporary readers of Greco-Roman narratives to comprehend and to distinguish. Hindered both by our
Did Jesus really restore sight to blind people? How are we to understand the stories of demon possession? What are we to make of the virgin birth? What was Paul