TY - JOUR AU - Twelftree, Graham H. PY - 2020/06/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Jesus, Magician or Miracle Worker? JF - The Biblical Annals JA - ba VL - 10 IS - 3 SE - New Testament DO - 10.31743/biban.9769 UR - https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/ba/article/view/9769 SP - 405-436 AB - <p>This paper sets out to answer the question, was Jesus considered a&nbsp;magician? And if so, why? In the face of a current inconclusive debate, using&nbsp;unsuitable definitions of magic, and likely entangled with twenty-first-century&nbsp;definitions, the second-century data is engaged to help re-sensitize a reading of the&nbsp;gospel data. There are clear charges of magic in the second century that enable&nbsp;twenty-first-century readers to see that observers of Jesus’ ministry charged him&nbsp;with magic, but not for the reasons usually assumed. Some contemporary&nbsp;implications of this study are taken up in a contemporary coda.</p> ER -