02078cam a2200337 i 4500 2112489280 TxGeo 20250404120000.0 250321s2025||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9798217070107 trade pbk. (OCoLC)1511296032 TxGeo rda Pagels, Elaine H, 1943-, author. Miracles and wonder [large print] : the historical mystery of Jesus / Elaine Pagels. Miracles and wonders : the historical mystery of Jesus. First large print edition. New York, NY : Random House Large Print, 2025. ©2025. 512 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "Over the past two thousand years, countless personalities have been projected onto the enigma we know as Jesus: a first-century rabbi, capable of miraculous healing, or a magician faking cures; a Prophet, or a deluded visionary; a heretical Jew, or God in human form. In this ... work of accessible scholarship, ... Pagels explores a wide range of sources--including the Bible, the earliest reports of Jesus's life, and the secret 'gnostic gospels,' discovered in the 20th century--to break down these contradictions and paint a richer and more complex portrait of Jesus in his own time. ... As Christians became the largest community of any religious tradition in the world, Pagels argues, people have constructed and reconstructed Jesus through the lens of imagination, his image shaped by the social, political, and economic challenges of their own time"-- Provided by publisher of regular-sized print edition. 20250422. Jesus Christ History of doctrines. Jesus Christ Historicity. Jesus Christ Person and offices. Large type books. QS5