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In Signs, Wonders, and Gifts: Divination in the Letters of Paul, Jennifer Eyl provides a convincing and nuance analysis of Paul's divinatory and wonderworking practices and the reciprocal relationship involved in the language of pistis. Theoretically savvy and empirically grounded, this is unquestionably a learned book that will become the standard work on the subject while being written in a style that will reward students as much as seasoned scholars. -- James Crossley, Professor of Bible, Society, and Politics in the Centre for the Social-Scientific Criticism of the Bible, St. Mary's University Jennifer Eyl places Paul's divinatory practices where they should be: front and centre. This is done in a way that is informed by the best thinking on ancient magic as a category, theory of religion, ethnicity, cognitive science, and social scientific description. This book challenges traditional Pauline scholarship in all the right ways. -- Zeba Crook, author of Reconceptualising Conversion: Patronage, Loyalty, and Conversion in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean Jennifer Eyl's Signs, Wonders, and Gifts represents a major contribution to scholarship - not only Christian Origins scholarship on the Pauline letters, but scholarship on divination, miracle-working, magic, and the character of religious specialists in the ancient world more generally. Eyl makes sense of Paul's views of, and practices around, miracles, acts of power, and prophetic predictions by situating his language within the often-unspoken but deeply held intuitive convictions of the ancients about the gods, how the gods work, and how they interact with people. Paul's ideas, far from being unique or mysterious, are shown to be in harmony with the broader religious culture of the Roman Empire. -- William Arnal an effective, innovative, and provocative treatment of Paul in his religious milieu that will be of interest to many New Testament specialists. One can hope that scholarship increasingly participates in Eyl's unflinching commitment to an analysis of Paul within the Greek and Roman world and in so doing produces an ever clearer and more penetrating assessment of the Apostle and his achievements. -- Courtney Friesen, Religion

"""In Signs, Wonders, and Gifts: Divination in the Letters of Paul, Jennifer Eyl provides a convincing and nuance analysis of Paul's divinatory and wonderworking practices and the reciprocal relationship involved in the language of pistis. Theoretically savvy and empirically grounded, this is unquestionably a learned book that will become the standard work on the subject while being written in a style that will reward students as much as seasoned scholars."" -- James Crossley, Professor of Bible, Society, and Politics in the Centre for the Social-Scientific Criticism of the Bible, St. Mary's University ""Jennifer Eyl places Paul's divinatory practices where they should be: front and centre. This is done in a way that is informed by the best thinking on ancient magic as a category, theory of religion, ethnicity, cognitive science, and social scientific description. This book challenges traditional Pauline scholarship in all the right ways."" -- Zeba Crook, author of Reconceptualising Conversion: Patronage, Loyalty, and Conversion in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean ""Jennifer Eyl's Signs, Wonders, and Gifts represents a major contribution to scholarship - not only Christian Origins scholarship on the Pauline letters, but scholarship on divination, miracle-working, magic, and the character of religious specialists in the ancient world more generally. Eyl makes sense of Paul's views of, and practices around, miracles, ""acts of power,"" and prophetic predictions by situating his language within the often-unspoken but deeply held intuitive convictions of the ancients about the gods, how the gods work, and how they interact with people. Paul's ideas, far from being unique or mysterious, are shown to be in harmony with the broader religious culture of the Roman Empire."" -- William Arnal ""an effective, innovative, and provocative treatment of Paul in his religious milieu that will be of interest to many New Testament specialists. One can hope that scholarship increasingly participates in Eyl's unflinching commitment to an analysis of Paul within the Greek and Roman world and in so doing produces an ever clearer and more penetrating assessment of the Apostle and his achievements."" -- Courtney Friesen, Religion"

Jennifer Eyl's Signs, Wonders, and Gifts represents a major contribution to scholarship - not only Christian Origins scholarship on the Pauline letters, but scholarship on divination, miracle-working, magic, and the character of religious specialists in the ancient world more generally. Eyl makes sense of Paul's views of, and practices around, miracles, acts of power, and prophetic predictions by situating his language within the often-unspoken but deeply held intuitive convictions of the ancients about the gods, how the gods work, and how they interact with people. Paul's ideas, far from being unique or mysterious, are shown to be in harmony with the broader religious culture of the Roman Empire. * William Arnal * Jennifer Eyl places Paul's divinatory practices where they should be: front and centre. This is done in a way that is informed by the best thinking on ancient magic as a category, theory of religion, ethnicity, cognitive science, and social scientific description. This book challenges traditional Pauline scholarship in all the right ways. * Zeba Crook, author of Reconceptualising Conversion: Patronage, Loyalty, and Conversion in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean * In Signs, Wonders, and Gifts: Divination in the Letters of Paul, Jennifer Eyl provides a convincing and nuance analysis of Paul's divinatory and wonderworking practices and the reciprocal relationship involved in the language of pistis. Theoretically savvy and empirically grounded, this is unquestionably a learned book that will become the standard work on the subject while being written in a style that will reward students as much as seasoned scholars. * James Crossley, Professor of Bible, Society, and Politics in the Centre for the Social-Scientific Criticism of the Bible, St. Mary's University *

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Jennifer Eyl is Assistant Professor of Religion at Tufts University. She is the co-editor of Christian Tourist Attractions, Mythmaking, and Identity Formation and has published articles in Method and Theory in the Study of Religion and the Journal for the Study of the New Testament.

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