The miracle stories of the founders and saints of the major world religions have much in common. Written by international experts, this Companion provides an authoritative and comparative study of miracles in not only Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Christianity and Iudaism, but also indigenous or traditional religions. The authors promote a discussion of the problems of miracles in our largely secular culture, and of the value of miracles in religious belief. The miracles of Iesus are also contextualized through chapters on the Hebrew Bible, Classical culture to the Romans, Second Temple and early rabbinic Iudaism, and early Christianity. This book provides students with a scholarly introduction to miracle, which also covers philosophical, medical and historical issues.