shortbreadsh replied to your post:What are your thoughts on calling mental illness demons (and vice versa)? Both in terms of labeling exorcisms in the Bible as healing mental illness and in referring to mental illnesses now as demons (in a Christian context).
Thanks for answering! I am intrigued by point 4 and will look into that more
You're welcome! Here's actually a reading list that a professor sent to me when I inquired. He's a postcolonial NT scholar:
· Graham H. Twelftree, Jesus the Exorcist,
Jesus the Miracle Worker, and
· Wendy J. Cotter, The Christ of the Miracle Stories
· Audrey Dawson, Healing, Weakness and Power
· Pieter F. Craffert, The Life of a Galilean Shaman
· Gerd Theissen and Annette Merz, The Historical Jesus, pages 281-315.
· Craig Keener, Miracles: The Credibility of New Testament Accounts, 2 volumes
· Duane F. Watson, ed., Miracle Discourse in the New Testament