This volume contains contributions by a group of internationally acknowledged scholars dealing with the interpretation of healing and exorcism in texts relating to Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity, including the transmission, reception, and interpretation of the biblical texts in early Christian writings and artefacts.

This volume, originating from a conference on "Healing and Exorcism in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity" hosted by Örebro School of Theology (Sweden) in 2018, deals with the ideological and theological meaning of healing and exorcism in a historical, literary, and socio-cultural perspective. While the first part of the book focuses on Jewish and early Christian texts and themes, the second centres on the transmission, reception and interpretation of the biblical texts in early Christian writings and artefacts.

Autorentext
Born 1988; PhD student at Lund University and part-time Lecturer in New Testament Studies at Örebro School of Theology, Sweden. Born 1960; Academic Dean and Lecturer in New Testament Studies at Örebro School of Theology, Sweden. Born 1970; Professor of Biblical Studies at Ansgar Teologiske Høgskole, Kristiansand, Norway.

Inhalt
Mikael Tellbe: Introduction

PART I Healing and Exorcism in Second Temple Judaism and Emerging Christianity
Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer: Dumping your Toxic Waste Abroad: Exorcism and Healing in Zechariah's Vision Report and Beyond - Cecilia Wassén: The Impurity of the Impure Spirits in the Gospels - Sigurd Grindheim: Exorcism, Forgiveness, and Christological Implications - Susan R. Garrett: The Miracle That Jesus Cannot Do - Steve Walton: Why silence? Reflections on Paul and Jesus Silencing Demonised People in Luke-Acts - Graham H. Twelftree: Healing and Exorcism in the Early Church - Larry W. Hurtado: The Ritual Use of Jesus's Name in Early Christian Exorcism and Healing

PART II Healing and Exorcism in the Early Church
Jennifer W. Knust and Tommy Wasserman: The Wondrous Gospel of John: Jesus's Miraculous Deeds in Late Ancient Editorial and Scholarly Practice - Karl Olav Sandnes: Ancient Debates on Jesus as Miracle Worker: Emic and Etic Perspectives - Carl Johan Berglund: How "Valentinian" Was Heracleon's Reading of the Healing of the Son of a Royal Official? - Barbara Crostini: The Use of Scripture in Cyril of Jerusalem's Homily on the Paralytic by the Pool : Interpreting the Litter of Solomon - Anthony John Lappin: : Demons and Their Temples in the Second Half of the Fourth Century