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The Exorcism Stories in Luke-acts

A Sociostylistic Reading

  • Paperback
  • 312 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.8 cm

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This book in English integrates detailed literary criticism of the exorcism stories in Luke-Acts with wide-ranging comparative study of ancient sources on demonology, spirit affliction and exorcistic healing. Methods from systemic functional linguistics and critical theory are explained and then applied to each story. Careful focus is placed on each narrative's linguistic functions and also on relevant aspects of its literary co-text and the wider context of culture. Implications of the analysis for the new perspective on Luke-Acts, especially the implied author's relationship with Judaism, are explored in relation to the Lukan stories' original context of reception. Largely neglected interfaces between Luke's narrative representation of exorcism and emerging academic discourse about religious experience, shamanism, health care in antiquity, ritual performance and ancient Jewish systems of impurity are probed in ways that shed fresh light on this supremely alien part of the Lukan writings.
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  • Author

    Todd Klutz

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    August 2008

  • Weight

    400g

  • Page Count

    312

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521076050

  • ISBN-10

    0521076056

  • Eden Code

    1226155

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