Smoke & mirrors : discourses of magic in early Petrine traditions / Shaily Shashikant Patel.
| Author/creator | Patel, Shaily Shashikant author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025] |
| Description | xvi, 224 pages ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Smoke and mirrors |
| Contents | Introduction: "Magic" and early Petrine literary traditions -- Magic and the making of miracles in the Gospel of Luke -- Magic and the making of a Jesus movement in the canonical Acts -- Magic and the making of (a) Christianity in the Acts of Peter -- Magic and the making of heresy in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies -- Coda: Lives and afterlives of Petrine "Magic." |
| Abstract | "Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions is a book about how magic disappears from early Christian texts that feature the apostle Peter. It offers a discursive genealogy of "magic" as it coalesces and shifts across four texts, ranging in date from the New Testament period to late antiquity: the Gospel of Luke, the canonical Acts of the Apostles, the Acts of Peter, and the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies. Smoke & Mirrors shows how writers in this literary trajectory redescribed those of Peter's activities that were stereotypically associated with magic in other Graeco-Roman literature, first by mitigating these activities' resemblances to ancient magic, and then, by attributing to them new conceptual associations - ones allowing "miracle" to coalesce in magic's stead. Equipped with a distinctively Christian category of wonderworking, our authors use miracle to help forge their respective orthodoxies, Petrine authors leverage miracle towards decidedly not-magical ends, such as establishing apostolic authority, articulating group boundaries, generating conversion, and signifying "heresy." Ultimately, Smoke & Mirrors argues that the categories of magic and miracle, as they are co-constituted in Petrine texts, are critical to early Christian self-fashioning"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-215) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Patel, Shaily Shashikant Smoke & mirrors New Yorkm NY : Oxford University Press, [2025] 9780197770559 |
| LCCN | 2025025013 |
| ISBN | 9780197770528 |
| ISBN | 0197770525 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
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