OS MILAGRES DE JESUS E O CONTEXTO DA MAGIA NO MEDITERRÂNEO

Antonio Abrantes

doi:10.1590/SciELOPreprints.7790

Preprint / Version 1

THE MIRACLES OF JESUS AND THE CONTEXT OF MAGIC IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

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Antonio Abrantes Independent https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4627-1370

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.7790

Keywords:

Jesus, Christianity, Magic, Alchemy

Abstract

Morton Smith (1978), Dominic Crossan (1994), Gabriele Cornelli (2006), Daniel Justi (2010) and André Chevitarese (2017, 2022) argue that Jesus of Nazareth was a wizard. The purpose of this article is to show that Jesus would hardly fit into the concept of a magician given the context of his time. Nor can Jesus be seen as possessing the secret knowledge of manipulating the forces of nature that characterizes the magicians of the time.