Demons and the Devil in Ancient and Medieval Christianity (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae - Texts and Studies of Early Christian Life and Language)

270 Pages·2011·2.8 MB·English

by  Nienke Vos

Demons and the Devil in
Ancient and Medieval Christianity
Supplements
to
Vigiliae Christianae
Texts and Studies of
Early Christian Life and Language
Editors
J. den Boeft—B.D. Ehrman—J. van Oort—
D.T. Runia—C. Scholten—J.C.M. van Winden
VOLUME 108
The titles published in this series are listed at www.brill.nl/vcs.
Demons and the Devil in
Ancient and Medieval Christianity
Edited by
Nienke Vos and Willemien Otten
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2011
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Demons and the Devil in ancient and medieval Christianity / edited by Nienke Vos and
Willemien Otten.
p. cm. — (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, ISSN 0920-623X ; v. 108)
In English; 1 contribution in German.
Based on a conference held Oct. 6–7, 2006 in Heeze, Netherlands.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-90-04-19617-9 (hardback : alk. paper)
1. Demonology—History of doctrines—Early church, ca. 30–600—Congresses.
2. Demonology—History of doctrines—Middle Ages, 600–1500—Congresses. I. Vos,
Nienke. II. Otten, Willemien. III. Title. IV. Series.
BT975.D47 2011
235’.409015—dc22
2011014326
ISSN 0920-623x
ISBN 9789004196179
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CONTENTS
List of Contributors ........................................................................... ix
List of Abbreviations ......................................................................... xi
SETTING THE SCENE
Demons and the Devil in Ancient and Medieval Christianity:
Introduction, Summary, Reflection ............................................ 3
Nienke Vos
Monotheismus und Teufelsglaube: Entstehung und
Psychologie des biblischen Satansmythos ................................. 37
Gerd Theißen
Stoics on Souls and Demons: Reconstructing Stoic
Demonology ................................................................................... 71
Keimpe Algra
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND ITS RECEPTION
IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY
Demons and Exorcisms in the Gospel of Mark ........................... 99
Geert van Oyen
The Application of Magical Formulas of Invocation in
Christian Contexts ........................................................................ 117
Hagit Amirav
Exorcism: Tackling the Devil by Word of Mouth ....................... 129
Toon Bastiaensen
viii contents
ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY
Justin Martyr and his Demon-ridden Universe ........................... 145
Theodoor Korteweg
Demons Without and Within: The Representation of Demons,
the Saint, and the Soul in Early Christian Lives,
Letters and Sayings ....................................................................... 159
Nienke Vos
Demons among the Messalians ....................................................... 183
Boudewijn Dehandschutter
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIANITY
Denominations of the Devil and Demons in the Missale
Gothi cum ......................................................................................... 195
Gerard Bartelink
Overshadowing or Foreshadowing Return: The Role of
Demons in Eriugena’s Periphyseon ............................................ 211
Willemien Otten
Horror vacui: Evil in the Incarnated World of the Bibles
Moralisées ........................................................................................ 231
Babette Hellemans
Index locorum .................................................................................... 249
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
K.A. (Keimpe) Algra is Professor of the History of Ancient and Medi-
eval Philosophy at the University of Utrecht.
H. (Hagit) Amirav is Assistant Professor in Early Christian Studies in
the Theology Department of VU University Amsterdam, and Director
of an ERC project on patristic exegesis entitled The Christian Appropria-
tion of the Jewish Scriptures: Allegory, Pauline Exegesis, and the Negotia-
tion of Religious Identities.
G.J.M. (Gerard) Bartelink is Professor Emeritus of Early Christian
Greek and Latin and Medieval Latin at the Radboud (formerly: Catho-
lic) University of Nijmegen.
A.A.R. (Toon) Bastiaensen († 2009) was Senior Lecturer in Early Chris-
tian Latin at the Radboud (formerly: Catholic) University of Nijmegen.
B. (Boudewijn) Dehandschutter († 2011) was Professor of Greek Patris-
tics and Early Christian History at the Catholic University of Leuven.
B.S. (Babette) Hellemans is Associate Professor of Medieval History at
the University of Groningen.
Th. (Theodoor) Korteweg is an independent patristic scholar and pas-
tor in Ferwert.
W. (Willemien) Otten is Professor of the Theology and History of
Christianity at the University of Chicago.
G.C.M. (Geert) van Oyen is Professor of New Testament at the Catho-
lic University of Louvain-la-Neuve.
G. (Gerd) Theißen is Professor Emeritus of New Testament Theology
at the University of Heidelberg.
N.M. (Nienke) Vos is Associate Professor of Patristics and the Litera-
ture of Early Christianity in the Classics Department of VU University
Amsterdam.