It is fair, therefore, to say that for all practical purposes miracles enter the Hebrew tradition with Moses, then they carry over to Joshua before disappearing in the Bible for almost four hundred years. Miracles then reappear in the Elijah story and carry on to Elisha, before disappearing again for about eight hundred years. Finally, they reappear in the New Testament in the stories that gather around Jesus of Nazareth. The pattern set in the Hebrew scriptures is followed, for these miraculous acts are then said to carry over to Jesus’ disciples in a manner that appears to replicate first
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