Signs and Wonders Leader Guide - Print

Signs and Wonders Leader Guide: 
A Beginner’s Guide to the Miracles of Jesus

By Amy-Jill Levine

Soft cover 64pp
ISBN 9781791007706
Abingdon Press (2022)

[Allow 4-6 weeks]

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Amy-Jill Levine explores selected miracles of Jesus in historical and theological context.

For each miracle, she discusses not only how past witnesses would have understood the events, but also how today’s readers can draw meaning from Jesus’s words and actions.

Chapter topics include:

• Giving sight to the blind: Metaphors of understanding (Mark 8, John 9)
• “Take up your pallet and walk” (the paralyzed man): On the role of caregivers
• A bleeding woman and a dead girl: The importance of women’s bodies
• Walking on water and stilling the storm: Ecological readings of the Gospels
• The feeding of the 5,000 (or more): The centrality of bread
• The raising of Lazarus: Taking death seriously

Components for the six-week study include a book, comprehensive Leader Guide, and DVD/Video sessions featuring Amy-Jill Levine.

“Amy-Jill Levine engages the miracles of Jesus with scholarly acumen and signature wit. Christians who have been confused by these stories will find new clarity in her comprehensive context, including corrective understandings of Judaism. Those who have been intimidated by these texts will be encouraged by her candor. Those who have been inspired by Jesus’ miracles will find even deeper dimensions of meaning in the practical, pastoral, theological, and literary levels she opens and the provocative issues raised, from food insecurity to gender assumptions. Levine presses the essential “so what?” question and challenges us to be changed by these stories – and to be amazed.” The Rev. Deborah A. Block, D.Min. Pastor, Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Milwaukee

Click the link for a short video introduction:
https://youtu.be/Ru9yfoS6y8c

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