Die distanzierte Darstellung des Wunderbaren in der Apostelgeschichte
Eine erzähltechnische Konvention antiker Historiographie bei Lukas
By (author) Manuel Nägele
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(October 2026)
ISBN: 9783162008121
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Contrary to the prevailing consensus, Manuel Nägele shows that Luke is both familiar with and deliberately employs the convention of contemporary historians to present miracles in a distanced manner. In doing so, Luke displays narrative refinement and a willingness to engage with the miraculous.
A widespread prejudice assumes that people in antiquity held a naive belief in miracles. Yet even back then, every conceivable stance existed, ranging from an unbroken belief in miracles to a radical skepticism toward them. In the works of ancient historians, the controversial nature of miraculous phenomena is reflected in the fact that accounts of miracles are presented in a distanced manner. Lukan scholarship, on the other hand, assumes that Luke does not adhere to this convention of miracle distance despite his historiographical claims, and may not even be aware of it. Manuel Nägele refutes this consensus by drawing on two recent insights from classical studies, according to which miracle distance is not necessarily tied to a critical-skeptical attitude of the historian toward the miraculous, and according to which it can be assumed that historians communicate their concerns not only through authorial comments but also intradiegetically through a corresponding shaping of the narrated world. Against this backdrop, Nägele draws on the literary discourse on the fantastic and employs narratological tools to identify the common distancing strategies of ancient historians, thereby examining whether and to what extent miracle distance is realized not only extradiegetically but also intradiegetically. The author then applies these insights to Luke-Acts. It becomes apparent that, in some miracle accounts – particularly in the second half of the Acts of the Apostles – Luke subtly employs miracle distance intradiegetically. Clearly, Luke is not only familiar with this convention but also knows how to use it for his own purposes. Nägele concludes with a discussion of what this insight might mean for Luke’s audience and explores the question of why Luke does not portray all miracles in a distanced manner.
Kapitel I: Einleitung
1. Hinführung und Problemanzeige
2. Forschungsgeschichtliche Kontextualisierung des Problemhorizonts
3. Fragestellung und Anliegen der vorliegenden Untersuchung
4. Aufbau der vorliegenden Untersuchung
Kapitel II: Methodische und begriffliche Distinktionen
1. Das Wunder(bare) - eine literaturwissenschaftliche Schärfung seiner undeutlichen Konturen
2. Zum etischen Sprachgebrauch der vorliegenden Studie: Wunder(bares), Mirakulöses oder doch Übernatürliches?
3. Distinktionen zum Distanzbegriff
Kapitel III: Die distanzierte Darstellung des Wunder(baren) bei zeitgenössischen Autoren
1. Extradiegetische Distanzierungsstrategien
2. Intradiegetische Distanzierungsstrategien
3. Fazit zu den extra- und intradiegetischen Distanzierungsstrategien
Kapitel IV: Die distanzierte Darstellung des Wunder(baren) im lukanischen Doppelwerk
1. Interpretatorische Vorbemerkungen zu einer intradiegetisch realisierten distanzierten Wunderdarstellung bei Lukas
2. Die lukanische (Um-)codierung der geltenden Plausibilitätsstruktur
3. Der rationalisierende Umgang mit dem Wunder(baren) bei Lukas
4. Ironie und Sarkasmus bei Lukas
Kapitel V: Ergebnisse und Perspektiven
1. Synthese der Beobachtungen zur lukanischen Wunderdistanz
2. Auswertung und Ausblick
Born 1991; 2022 Doctorate and 2026 Habilitation in Zurich; Acting Professor of Biblical Theology and its Didactics at the Institute of Protestant Theology at the Karlsruhe University of Education.
- By (author) Manuel Nägele
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