Thus, Eve concludes, early Jewish parallels do not advance the closest parallels to Jesus’s signs: the biblical models of Elijah, Elisha, and (for the sea and feeding miracles) at least some links with Moses.[75] He argues that the evidence “leaves Jesus as unique in the surviving Jewish literature of his time as being portrayed as performing a large number of healings and exorcisms,” and especially as a bearer, not just a mediator or petitioner, of divine power.[76]
