The Gospels and Their Stories in Anthropological Perspective

Joseph Verheyden (Herausgegeben von) Professor of New Testament Studies in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the KU Leuven.John S. Kloppenborg (Herausgegeben von) Born 1951; MA and PhD at the University of St. Michael's College; Professor and Chair of the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto.

• Joseph Verheyden/John S. Kloppenborg: IntroductionBodies, Demons, and MagicGiovanni B. Bazzana: Beelzebul vs Satan: Exorcist Subjectivity and Spirit Possession in the Historical Jesus - Laura Feldt: Monster Theory and the Gospels: Monstrosities, Ambiguous Power and Emotions in Mark - Sarah E. Rollens: From Birth Pangs to Dismembered Limbs: The Anthropology of Bodily Violence in the Gospel of Mark - Brigidda Bell: Discerning the False Prophets: An Embodied Approach to Prophetic Testing in Matthew and the Didache - William Arnal: Textual Healing: Magic in Mark and ActsPracticesZeba A. Crook: Religion's Coercive Prayers - Martin Ebner: Der Wanderprediger und sein Anhang als "Lehrer" und "Schüler": Jesus und seine Jünger im Rahmen der römischen LehrertopographieSpacesHalvor Moxnes: Secrecy in the Gospel of Matthew from an Anthropological Perspective: Creation of an Alternative World - Daniel A. Smith: Excursion, Incursion, Conquest: A Spatial Approach to Mission in the SynopticsVisionsSantiago Guijarro Oporto: The Visions of Jesus and His Disciples - Jan N. Bremmer: Ghosts, Resurrections, and Empty Tombs in the Gospels, the Greek Novel, and the Second Sophistic - Pieter F. Craffert: Re-Visioning Jesus' Resurrection: The Resurrection Stories in a Neuroanthropological PerspectiveResponseSimon Coleman: Being Undisciplined: An Anthropologist's Response