Miracles in miniature

Abstract While there has been a renewed scholarly interest in paratextual features of early Christian manuscripts, that interest has rarely extended to the size of m...

This chapter provides a semiological interpretation of the reading of miracle accounts in Jonas’s hagiography in seeking to understand the function that these accounts played withi...

There are many who believe Moses parted the Red Sea and Jesus came back from the dead. Others are certain that exorcisms occur, ghosts haunt attics, and the blessed can cure the te...