Abstract

This essay intends to explore what a consideration of the miracle stories recorded in the Christian Gospels might contribute to an attempt to consider the Jewish context for Jesus. The miracles are often not the focus of efforts to think about a Jewish Jesus, but this essay suggests a way that they are best understood as part of a Jewish context by using a Midrashic approach to two texts: Numbers 20 and Matthew 14. The result is that the notion of God's providing for God's people is central, but that a post-Shoah reading requires that a present and not a future event is required as part of a post-Shoah ethic.

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