Experientia Vol.1 Inquiry into Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Christianity

includes index and biblioraphy

Introduction: Religious Experience, Past and Present 1 Frances Flannery with Nicolae Roddy, Colleen Shantz, and Rodney A. Werline PART i. BODY AND SELF IN RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE The Body and Ritual Reconsidered, Imagined, and Experienced Frances Flannery The Afterlife as Mirror of the Self Alan F. Segal "My Name is Legion": Spirit Possession and Exorcism in Roman Palestine 41 Richard A. Horsley The Experience of Prayer and Resistance to Demonic Powers in the Gospel of Mark Rodney A. Werline PART 2. TEXT AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE The Medium of the Divine 75 Steven M. Wasserstrom Visions, Mysteries, and the Interpretetive Task: Text Work and Religious Experience in Philo and Clement 83 Celia Deutsch Transformation by a Text: The Gospel of John 105 Robin Griffith-Jones Religious Experience and the Apocalypses 125 Crispin Fletcher-Louis PART 3. PAUL AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE The Construction of Religious Experience in Paul 147 Troels Engberg-Pedersen Paul`s Rapture: 2 Corinthians 12:2-4 and the Language of the Mystics 159 Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte Dreams/Visions and the Experience of God in Luke-Acts 177 John B. R Miller The Confluence of Trauma and Transcendence in the Pauline Corpus 193 Colleen Shantz Response to Papers by Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Colleen Shantz, Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte, and John B. Miller 207 Rollin A. Ramsaran