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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Jesus, the Galilean exorcist
    sub title: his exorcisms in social and political context
  name:
    name part: Witmer, Amanda.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 247 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "Amanda Witmer presents an investigation of exorcism in the activities of the historical Jesus, particularly the connection between spirit possession and exorcism on the one hand and the socio-political context of first-century Galilee on the other. Witmer draws on research from the areas of sociology, anthropology, archaeology and biblical studies to illuminate this aspect of Jesus' career, as well as the broader social implications of spirit possession in those he treated and the exorcisms themselves. Evidence found in the strands underlying the Synoptic Gospels is evaluated using the criteria of authenticity and comparative analysis in order to establish early and historical material. Questions posed and answered concern the historical plausibility of Jesus' role as exorcist, the possibility that his own career began with a period of spirit possession, and the meaning that his exorcisms conveyed to his first-century audience. Thus, the methodology includes textual analysis, sociological analysis of general cultural patterns within which first-century Palestine can be fitted, and anthropological analysis of the plausible functions of both spirit possession and exorcism in agrarian societies"--From publisher description.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Spirit possession and exorcism in the ancient world -- The socio-political context : Galilee in 30 CE -- Jesus the exorcist : the indirect evidence -- Jesus the exorcist : the direct evidence -- Conclusion : reconstructing Jesus, the Jewish Galilean exorcist.
  note: Amanda Witmer.
  note: Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--McMaster University, 2009 under title: Jesus, a Jewish Galilean exorcist : a socio-political and anthropological investigation.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-229) and indexes.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Jesus Christ
  subject:
    topic: Exorcism in the Bible
  classification: BS2545.D5 W58 2012
  classification: 232.95
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Library of New Testament studies ; 459
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Library of New Testament studies. v. 10
      part name: Library of historical Jesus studies
  related item:
    title info:
      title: T & T Clark library of biblical studies
  identifier: 9780567575524
  identifier: 0567575527
  identifier: 2011278667
  record info:
    record content source: BTCTA
    record creation date: 120519
    record change date: 20150922103722.0
    record identifier: in00002776912
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng