Miracles in Jewish and Christian antiquity : imagining truth / edited by John C. Cavadini.

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [1999], ©1999.

ix, 243 pages ; 23 cm.

"The essays ... originated in the annual year-long seminar on Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity held in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame"--Pref.

The meaning of biblical miracles in light of the modern quest for truth / Randall C. Zachman -- Miracles, in other words: social science perspectives on healings / Jerome H. Neyrey -- Miracles: Elisha and Hanina ben Dosa / Joseph Blenkinsopp -- Gender and power in the gospel of Mark: the daughter of Jairus and the woman with the flow of blood / Mary Rose D'Angelo -- Restoring the balance: musings on miracles in rabbinic Judaism / Michael A. Signer -- Monks and miracle / Benedicta Ward -- The signs and wonders of orthodoxy: miracles and monks' lives in sixth-century Palestine / Sidney H. Griffith -- Virgin and martyr: divine protection from sexual assault in the Peristephanon of Prudentius / Joy A. Schroeder -- Millennial modesty: a study of miraculous fertility as portrayed by commentators on Apocalypse 20:4-6 / J. Massyngbaerde Ford.

Includes bibliographical references and index.