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22 sie 2024 · To dive into the various representations of Jesus with a wand and to discover their true meaning, read Lee M. Jefferson’s article “Jesus the Magician? Why Jesus Holds a Wand in Early Christian Art,” published in the Fall 2020 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review.
10 mar 2022 · As you can see in all three panels, Jesus is performing his miraculous signs with the use of a staff or a wand. That might conjure (pun intended) images of wizards and magicians. And that might bother you somewhat. Was Jesus seen as a magician? But surely, his miracles aren’t mere magic tricks.
13 maj 2023 · Experts in iconography explain this as a result of Roman converts to Christianity associating miraculous stories with magic. Consequently, in their depictions of these events, they represented Jesus with a wand to signify the miraculous or “magical” acts described in the stories and how Jesus performed them.
Jesus often holds a stick or staff in early Christian depictions of him performing miracles. If not a magician’s wand, what is it? Explore the tradition and meaning of the miracle-working tool.
Clearly, it appears as though Jesus is using a wand to aid in the miracle and it is often interpreted as an iconographic indication that Jesus was a magician. This can be seen in Morton Smith's Jesus the Magician (1993.) among others.
For millennia, humans have attempted to depict the divine. The Fall 2020 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review offers some intriguing examples of this phenomenon. Early Christian depictions of Jesus in which he holds a "magic wand". What John 1 means when it says “God is love.”.
22 mar 2023 · Jesus, a ‘knower,’ offers a more textual-based portrayal of Jesus as a healer than Jesus with a magical wand. There is no written record of Jesus providing his disciples with wands when he sent them out to heal in his name. But he did tell them to “know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” (John 8:32).
