Memory, mission, and identity : orality and the apostolic miracle tradition /

Revision of the author's thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-310) and indexes.Healings and Exorcisms -- Resuscitations (Acts 9.36-42; Acts 20.7-12) -- Miracles of Rescue (Acts 5.17-19; 12.1-12; Acts 16.16) -- Punitive Judgment Miracles -- Following Jesus in Luke's Acts: Community and Identity -- 'In Deed and Word' -- Take up your cross (daily): Persecution and Martyrdom -- Miracle, Magic and Syncretism -- Rich, Poor and the Marginalized -- Apostles as Interpreters -- Travel and Dependence -- Faith, Faithfulness and Salvation -- Conclusion -- The Miracle Tradition in the Acts of Paul -- Introduction -- The Text of the Acts of Paul -- Date, Sources and Orality -- Miracle -- Healings and Exorcisms -- Resuscitation -- Miracles of Rescue -- Nature Miracles -- Following Jesus in the Acts of Paul: Identity and Community -- Paul's Ascetic Gospel? -- Persecutions -- Pneumatology -- Conclusion -- Miracle Tradition in the Acts of Peter -- Introduction -- The Text of the Acts of Peter -- Date, Origin, Sources and Orality -- Miracle -- Healing and Exorcisms --^Resuscitations -- Visions, Dreams and Epiphanies -- Nature Miracles -- Following Jesus in the Acts of Peter: Identity and Community -- Word and Deed: Miracles and the Imitatio Christi -- Competition and Propaganda -- Asceticism -- Rich and Poor -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Introduction -- Miracles -- Continuity -- Discontinuity -- Following Jesus -- Continuity -- Discontinuity.Miracle, Identity and Memory -- Introduction -- Early Christian Identity -- Miracle and Identity -- Conclusion -- The Transmission of a Tradition: Memory, Orality, and Discipleship -- Introduction -- Form Criticism -- Towards Oral Tradition -- Oral Tradition -- Transmission of Oral Tradition -- Memory and Orality in Antiquity -- Texts and Orality -- Rhetoric and Education -- Ancient Performances -- Discipleship -- Rabbinic Discipleship -- Discipleship in Greco-Roman Context -- Early Christian Discipleship -- Conclusion -- Memory and Miracle in Discipleship -- Introduction -- Miracles of Jesus -- The Meaning of the Miracles -- Witness of Disciples -- The Twelve: Discipleship and Mimesis -- Insiders, Outsiders and would-be Disciples -- The Calling of the Twelve -- Sending of the Twelve -- Conclusion -- Miracle Tradition in Luke's Acts -- Introduction -- Purpose of Luke's Acts: Apostolic Memories, Apostolic Tradition -- Date, Sources and Orality -- Miracles --