Description: 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.
Brief description: Todd Klutz is a Lecturer in New Testament Studies, Department of Religions and Theology, University of Manchester.
Review Quotes: "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