Jesus and Miracle

This course is designed to facilitate a close encounter with the miracle stories of the New Testament as scriptural memory of Jesus. Attention will be paid especially to the miracle tradition in the Gospel of Mark. To this end we will consider Mark's miracle stories in their literary context(s), engage critically the questions of scholarship and aspire to readings which are at once methodologically self-conscious and creatively life affirming. Lectures, small group discussion, two short assignments and a final paper.