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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
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 4: Proposed Explanations
13 Nonsupernatural Causes
14 Biased Standards?
15 More Extranormal Cases
Conclusion
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Appendix A: Demons and Exorcism in Antiquity
Appendix B: Spirit Possession and Exorcism in Societies Today
Appendix C: Comparisons with Later Christian Hagiography
Appendix D: Ancient Approaches to Natural Law
Appendix E: Visions and Dreams
Bibliography of Secondary Sources
Interviews and Personal Correspondence Cited
Index of Subjects
Index of Authors, Interviewees, and Correspondents
Index of Scripture
Index of Other Ancient Sources
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