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Esorcismo cristiano e possessione diabolica tra II e III secolo . By Andrea Nicolotti . (Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia. Research on the Inheritance of Early and Medieval Christianity, 54.) Pp. 808 + 1 colour plate. Turnhout : Brepols , 2011. [euro]160. 978 2 503 53193 9
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In this revision of his doctoral dissertation, defended in the Faculty of Humanities in the University of Turin in 2005, Nicolotti sets out to analyse and understand exorcism and demonic possession in early Christianity. Recognising that the first-century evidence, all concentrated in the New Testament, has already received considerable attention, his study deals with the texts written between the beginning of the second century and the edict of Decius (249 ce), the point at which Christianity had become sociologically and ideologically...