Preface -- I Rereading New Testament Miracle Stories -- "For nothing will be impossible with God" (Luke 1:37): The Reality of "The Feeding the Five Thousand" (Luke 9:10-17) in the Universe of Discourse of Luke's Gospel -- Miracles of Judgment in Luke-Acts -- Epiphany Reconsidered: A Parallel Reading of Acts 9:1-9 and Iliad 188-224a -- Of Dogs and Women: Ethology and Gender in Ancient Healing. The Canaanite Woman's Story - Matt 15:21-28 -- II Miracle Stories and Medical Discourse -- Stories Just Under the Skin: lepra in the Gospel of Luke -- Miracle and Natural Cause in Galen -- The Physiology of Spirit in the Reformation: Medical Consensus and Protestant Theologians -- III Politics of Miracle Stories -- Disability and the Terror of the Miracle Tradition -- Miracle and Eschatology in Two African American Slave Narratives and the Spirituals: From 'Orality' to Text -- Cultural Translation: The Fig Tree and Politics of Representation under Nero in Rome (Mark 11:13-15, 19-20 -- Matthew 21:18-19 -- Luke 13:1-9) -- Imperial Miracles and Elitist Discourses -- IV Media of Miracles -- The Healing Christ in Early Christian Funeral Art: The Example of the Frescoes at Domitilla Catacomb/Rome -- The Rhetoric of Violence and Healing in the Church of Prophites Elias in Thessaloniki -- The Wondrous World of the Cinema: Types of Depictions of the Miraculous in Jesus Films -- V Rethinking the Miraculous -- Miracles Revisited. A Short Theological and Historical Survey -- New Testament Healing Narratives and the Category of Numinous Power -- The Concept of Miracle and the Concepts of Reality. Some Provisional Remarks -- Marvels, Miracles, Signs and the Real: Peirce's Semiotics in Religion and Art -- List of Contributors -- Index of Subjects and Persons -- Index of Biblical Sources -- Index of Authors.