num_pages: 295
description: The author studies the origins &amp; early development of exorcism in Christianity as well as the importance of demonic &amp; divine spiritual possession in early Christian self-definition. Contents the ancient Near east-affliction &amp; conjuration in ancient Mesopotamia, pollution &amp; purification in Zoroastrianism. Ancient Israel &amp; Early Judaism-possession &amp; exorcism in the Hebrew Bible &amp; Septuagint, Pseudepigrapha, Dead Sea Scrolls. Early Greece-the Gods, the Greek Daimon, avenging spirits, the Erinyes, possession &amp; prophetic inspiration, illness, madness, binding the possessed, medicine &amp; possession, cultic healing. The New Testament-Demons, the significance, terminology &amp; authority of exorcism, Deity &amp; divine possession. Early Christianity-transferal of cult, magic &amp; exorcism, wisdom, visual rhetoric, possession &amp; ethics, heresy, exorcism &amp; initiation, charismatic exorcism. Bibliography. Reference index. Author Index. Subject Index.
language: English
title: Possession and Exorcism in the New Testament and Early Christianity
titlecomplete: Possession and Exorcism in the New Testament and Early Christianity (Wissunt Zum Neuen Testament, 157)
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Mohr Siebeck