Walk, Don't Run: Jesus's Water Walking Is Unparalleled in Greco-Roman Mythology.
Scholarly treatments of Jesus's sea-walking miracle frequently cite several parallel figures "walking on water" in Greco-Roman mythology, such as Poseidon, Orion, Euphemus, and Pythagoras. In fact, however, this "walking" terminology is inaccurate because, contrary to Adela Yarbro Collins and others...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 135; no. 4; pp. 763 - 778 |
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