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Smoke & Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions explores how magic disappears and miracle emerges in a series of four texts featuring the apostle Peter, and the impact this shift had in forging key facets of Christianity like Jesus' identity, apostolic authority, community norms, and Christian orthodoxy.
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Shaily Shashikant Patel is an Assistant Professor of Early Christianity at Virginia Tech. She earned her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2017, and her research focuses on Christian self-fashioning in response to broader discourses like those of "magic" or "heresy."
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