The Exorcism Stories in Luke-Acts
The Exorcism Stories in Luke-Acts
The distinctively Lukan version of the exorcism stories has attracted little interest from scholars in New Testament studies until recently. Setting the stories within their ancient cultural context, Todd Klutz uses linguistic analysis to cover popular beliefs as well as official religion. He sheds new light on the Jewishness of the text, and on the understanding of exorcism within the Hellenized Jewish religious world.
- The first account of the Lukan exorcism stories to give proper weight to unofficial religious traditions of the ancient near East, as well as to orthodox practices
- Sheds new light on the Jewishness of the text, and to the hellenized Jewish religious world in which it was produced
- Uses sociolinguistic analysis to arrive at new interpretations of the accounts in Luke-Acts and how they might have been understood by their original audience
Reviews & endorsements
"Klutz displays an extensive expertise in contextual issues relating to exorcism, magic and shamanism...As well as becoming a standard scholarly text on the analysis of biblical exorcism narratives, this book should become an important input to debate about Luke-Acts in general." Peter Oakes, JSNT Booklist
"Recently I heard a student describing a Scripture course as reversing the domestication of Scripture that has for so long been our practice. Reading Klutz is a welcome step in the same direction." Seán Kealy, Review of Biblical Literature
"I would attempt no exegetical work on any of these exorcisms without reference to this book." - The Journal of Religion Robert L. Brawley, McCormick Theological Seminary
Product details
August 2008Paperback
9780521076050
312 pages
216 × 140 × 18 mm
0.4kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Sociostylistics and the exorcism in Luke 4:33–37
- 2. Purity and the exorcism in Luke 8:26–39
- 3. Discipleship and the exorcism in Luke 9:37–43a
- 4. Paul, Jewish identity, and the exorcism in Acts 16:16–18
- Conclusion.
