Empowering The People: Jesus, Healing, And Exorcism - 9781666722550

In this innovative study, Horsley builds on his earlier works concerning the problematic and misleading categories of "magic" and "miracle" to examine in-depth the meaning and importance of the narratives of healing and exorcism in the Gospels. Incorporating his work on oral performance and turning to important works in medical anthropology, a new image emerges of how these narratives help us re-evaluate Jesus's place in first-century Galilee and Judea. In his exorcisms and healings, Jesus-in-interaction was empowering the villagers in their struggles for renewal of personal and communal dignity in resistance to invasive Roman rule.

• | Author: Richard A. Horsley
• | Publisher: Cascade Books
• | Publication Date: Mar 25, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 536 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Religion
• | ISBN-10: 1666722553
• | ISBN-13: 9781666722550