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Publication
- Publisher
- Baker Academic
- Date published
- 2011
The Physical Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Total pages
- 1172 pages
- ISBN-13
- 9780801039522
- ISBN-10
- 0801039525
- LCCN
- 2011020926
Reference
- Notes
- Two volumes bound and sold as one set under a single ISBN; the collation is xxxviii + xxx + 1172 pages. Keener's argument runs past the New Testament into a survey of miracle claims from the majority world today, on the ground that Hume's assumption -- that nobody credible reports such things -- is an empirical claim and a false one.
Contents
- Volume 1
- Part 1: The Ancient Evidence
- 1. Opening Questions about Early Christian Miracle Claims
- 2. Ancient Miracle Claims outside Christianity
- 3. Comparison of Early Christian and Other Ancient Miracle Accounts
- Part 2: Are Miracles Possible?
- 4. Antisupernaturalism as an Authenticity Criterion?
- 5. Hume and the Philosophic Questions
- 6. Developing Hume's Skepticism toward Miracles
- Part 3: Miracle Accounts beyond Antiquity
- 7. Majority World Perspectives
- 8. Examples from Asia
- 9. Examples from Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean
- 10. Supernaturalism in Earlier Christian History
- 11. Supernatural Claims in the Recent West
- 12. Blindness, Inability to Walk, Death, and Nature: Some Dramatic Reports
- Part 1: The Ancient Evidence
- Volume 2
- Part 4: Proposed Explanations
- 13. Nonsupernatural Causes
- 14. Biased Standards?
- 15. More Extranormal Cases
- Conclusion
- Appendixes
- A. Demons and Exorcism in Antiquity
- B. Spirit Possession and Exorcism in Societies Today
- C. Comparisons with Later Christian Hagiography
- D. Ancient Approaches to Natural Law
- E. Visions and Dreams
- Part 4: Proposed Explanations