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torment and resignation. At the same time, he reintegrates the marginalized and oppressed to social life, once they are healed. Jesus, thus, becomes the role model par excellence to be emulated by the Apostles, the Apostolic Fathers, and also by a Francis of Assisi, an Ignatius Loyola, a St. Theresa, a Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz, a Father Hurtado and a Monseñor Romero, to name a few who became greater than human life in their love, deeds and sacrifice.
Although many of Jesus’ miracles are being semiotically reinterpreted according to the Pashar14 method after the 1954 discovery of the “Dead Sea Scrolls” in Qumran, the thaumaturgies of Jesus ensured that Jesus’ fame spread quickly throughout the vast, astonished multitudes of Galilee like detonating gunpowder, for this teacher, healer and proclaimer of the Good News, revealed God’s countenance and God’s presence in miraculous action far more than mere words could have ever shown.
Granting that the Greco-Roman and Jewish worlds had had their own thaumaturges, none has had such an everlasting impact as Jesus: his life was a poem in whose being the poetry of the Holy Spirit was made manifest by the very Poet and maker himself. Such poetic trinity 3⁄4 poihthV, poihsiV, poihμa 3⁄4 in deeds and words, still inspire universal multitudes in what has become one of the three most powerful monotheistic religions in the globe. This is Jesus’ heritage, in
14 Mitchell, James. The Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Discovery Channel, Collector’s Edition. 221.4 R54 at Vancouver Public Library.
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