Jesus’s healing and exorcistic ministry, while exhibiting some parallels to its general Jewish framework, differs in serious respects from other early Jewish models.[52] As he notes, most of the miracles in non-Christian early Jewish sources differ in kind from those reported in early Christian sources.[53] Eve notes that most of the types of miracles in Josephus differ from those in the Gospels and Acts, with little interest in healings;[54] meanwhile, stories of postbiblical miracles are not very common outside Josephus,[55] and healings remain particularly rare.[56] Apart from some works
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