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Selected Bibliography

Adler, Mortimer J. The Angels and Us. New York: Macmillan, 1982.

Arnold, Clinton E. Ephesians, Power and Magic: The Concept of Power in Ephesians in Light of Its Historical Setting. Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 63. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989

———. Powers of Darkness: Principalities and Powers in Paul’s Letters. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1992.

———. “Returning to the Domain of the Powers: Stoicheia as Evil Spirits in Galatians 4:3, 9.” Novum Testamentum 38/1 (1996).

Aulén, Gustaf. Christus Victor: A Historical Study of the Three Main Types of the Idea of Atonement. Translated by A. G. Hebert. 1931. Reprint, New York: Macmillan, 1969.

Barnhouse, Donald Grey. “The Great Interval.” In The Invisible War, 9-20. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1965.

Basinger, David. “Can an Evangelical Christian Justifiably Deny God’s Exhaustive Knowledge of the Future.” Christian Scholars Review 25/2 (1995): 133-45.

Battu, B. F. “The Covenant of Peace: A Neglected Ancient Near Eastern Motif.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 49 (1987): 187-211.

Berkhof, H. Christ and the Powers. Translated by John Howard Yoder. 1962. Reprint, Scottdale, Penn.: Herald Press, 1967.

Böcher, Otto. Christus Exorcista. Stuttgart, Germany: Kohlhammer, 1972.

———. Dämonenfurcht und Dämonenabwehr: Ein Beitrag zur Vorgeschichte der christlichen Taufe. Beiträge zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und Neuen Testament 5. Stuttgart, Germany: Kohlhammer, 1970.

———. Das Neue Testament und die dämonischen Mächte. Stuttgart, Germany: Katholisches Bibelwerk, 1972.

Boyd, Gregory A. Trinity and Process: A Critical Evaluation and Appropriation of Hartshorne’s Di-Polar Theism Towards a Trinitarian Metaphysics. New York: Peter Lang, 1992.

Breuninger, C. “Where Angels Fear to Tread: Appraising the Current Fascination with Spiritual Warfare.” Covenant Quarterly 53 (May 1995): 37-43.

Caird, G. B. Principalities and Powers: A Study in Pauline Theology. Oxford: Clarendon, 1956.

Calvert, B. “Dualism and the Problem of Evil.” Sophia 22/3 (1983): 15-28.

Carr, Wesley. Angels and Principalities: The Background, Meaning and Development of the Pauline Phrase hai archai kai hai exousiai. Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 42. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Clifford, Richard J. The Cosmic Mountain in Canaan and the Old Testament. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972.

Collins, Adela Yarbro. The Combat Myth in the Book of Revelation. Harvard Dissertations in Religion 9. Missoula, Mont.: Scholars Press, 1976.

Cooke, Gerald. “The Sons of (the) God(s).” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 76 (1964): 22-47.

Crenshaw, James L. “The Shift from Theodicy to Anthropodicy.” Theodicy in the Old Testament. Edited by James L. Crenshaw. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983.

Cross, Frank Moore. Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973.

Custance, Arthur C. “Analysis of Genesis 1:1.” Time and Eternity and Other Biblical Studies. Doorway Papers 6. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1977.

———. Without Form and Void. Brockville, Ont.: Arthur Custance, 1970.

Daniélou, Jean. The Angels and Their Mission, According to the Fathers of the Church. Translated by David Heimann. 1953. Reprint, Westminster, Md.: Newman, 1957.

Davids, Peter H. “Sickness and Suffering in the New Testament.” In Wrestling with Dark Angels: Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Supernatural Forces in Spiritual Warfare, 215-37. Edited by C. Peter Wagner and F. D. Pennoyer. Ventura, Calif.: Regal, 1990.

Davies, Stevan L. Jesus the Healer: Possession, Trance and the Origins of Christianity. New York: Continuum, 1995.

Davies, Thomas Witton. Magic, Divination and Demonology Among the Hebrews and Their Neighbors. 1898. Reprint, New York: KTAV, 1969.

Davis, Stephen T. Logic and the Nature of God. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1983.

Day, John. God’s Conflict with the Dragon and the Sea: Echoes of a Canaanite Myth in the Old Testament. University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 35. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Day, Peggy Lynne. An Adversary in Heaven: Satan in the Hebrew Bible. Harvard Semitic Monographs 43. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988.

Driver, G. R. “Mythical Monsters in the Old Testament.” In Studi Orientalistici in onore di Giorgio Levi Della Vida, 1:234-49. 2 vols. Rome: Instituto per l’Oriente, 1956.

Dunn, J. D. G., and Graham H. Twelftree. “Demon-Possession and Exorcism in the New Testament.” Churchman 94/3 (1980): 211-15.

Eller, Vernard. Christian Anarchy: Jesus’ Primacy over the Powers. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1987.

Fascher, Erich. Jesus und der Satan: Eine Studie zur Auslegung der Versuchungsgeschichte. Hallische Monographien 11. Halle, Germany: Max Niemeyer, 1949.

Ferguson, Everett. Demonology of the Early Christian World. New York: Mellen, 1984.

Fields, Weston W. Unformed and Unfilled: A Critique of the Gap Theory of Genesis 1:1, 2. Winona Lake, Ind.: Light and Life Press, 1973.

Forsyth, Neil. The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.

Fretheim, Terence E. The Suffering of God: An Old Testament Perspective. Overtures to Biblical Theology 14. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984.

Garrett, Susan R. The Demise of the Devil: Magic and the Demonic in Luke’s Writings. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1989.

Gokey, Francis X. The Terminology for the Devil and Evil Spirits in the Apostolic Fathers. Patristic Studies 93. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1961.

Goodman, Felicitas D. How About Demons? Possession and Exorcism in the Modern World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.

Gordon, C. H. “Leviathan: Symbol of Evil.” In Biblical Motifs: Origins and Transformations, 1-89. Edited by Alexander Altmann. Lown Institute of Advanced Judaic Studies 3. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966.

Grønbæk, Jakob H. “Baal’s Battle with Yam—A Canaanite Creation Fight.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 33 (1985): 27-44.

Guelich, Robert A. “Spiritual Warfare: Jesus, Paul and Peretti.” Pneuma 13 (Spring 1991): 33-64.

Gunkel, Hermann. Schöpfung und Chaos in Urzeit und Endzeit: Eine religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung über Gen 1 und Ap Joh 12. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1895.

Handy, Lowell K. Among the Host of Heaven: The Syro-Palestinian Pantheon as Bureaucracy. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1994.

Hayman, P. “Monotheism—A Misused Word in Jewish Studies?” Journal of Jewish Studies 42 (1991): 1-15.

Heidel, Alexander. The Babylonian Genesis: The Story of the Creation. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951.

Henninger, J. “The Adversary of God in Primitive Religions.” In Satan: Essays Collected and Translated from “Etudes Carmelitaines,” 105-20. Edited by Bruno de Jésus-Marie. 1948. Translated by Malachy Carroll et al. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1951.

Heuvel, Albert H. van den. These Rebellious Powers. New York: Friendship Press, 1965.

Hick, John. Evil and the God of Love. 1966. Reprint, London: Fontana, 1968.

———. “The Problem of Evil in the First and Last Things.” Journal of Theological Studies 19 (1968): 592.

Hiebert, Paul G. Anthropological Insights for Missionaries. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 1985.

———. “The Flaw of the Excluded Middle.” Missiology 10/1 (1982): 35-47.

Hiers, Richard H. “‘Binding’ and ‘Loosing’: The Matthean Authorizations.” Journal of Biblical Literature 104/2 (1985): 242-43.

———. “Satan, Demons and the Kingdom of God.” Scottish Journal of Theology 27 (1974): 35-47.

Hodgson, Leonard. For Faith and Freedom. Gifford Lectures, 1955-1957. 2 vols. Oxford: Blackwell, 1956.

Hollenbach, Paul W. “Help for Interpreting Jesus’ Exorcism.” In Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers 1993, 124-26. Edited by E. H. Lovering Jr. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993.

———. “Jesus, Demoniacs and Public Authorities: A Socio-historical Study.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 49 (1981): 584.

Ice, Thomas, and Robert Dean Jr. Overrun with Demons: The Church’s New Preoccupation with the Demonic. Eugene, Ore.: Harvest House, 1990.

Jensen, S. S. Dualism and Demonology: The Function of Demonology in Pythagorean and Platonic Thought. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1966.

Jung, C. G. Answer to Job. Cleveland, 1960.

Kallas, James G. Jesus and the Power of Satan. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1968.

———. The Satanward View: A Study in Pauline Theology. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1966.

———. The Significance of the Synoptic Miracles. Greenwich, Conn.: Seabury Press, 1961.

Kelly, Henry Ansgar. The Devil at Baptism: Ritual, Theology and Drama. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985.

———. The Devil, Demonology and Witchcraft: The Development of Christian Beliefs in Evil Spirits. 1968. 2nd ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1974.

Kelsey, Morton T. Discernment: A Study in Ecstasy and Evil. New York: Paulist Press, 1978.

Kloos, Carola. YHWH’s Combat with the Sea: A Canaanite Tradition in the Religion of Ancient Israel. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1986.

Kluger, Riukah Schärf. Satan in the Old Testament. 1948. Translated by Hildegard Nagel. Studies in Jungian Thought 7. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1967.

Koch, K. “Is There a Doctrine of Retribution in the Old Testament?” In Theodicy in the Old Testament, 57-87. Edited by James L. Crenshaw. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983.

König, Adrio. New and Greater Things: Re-evaluating the Biblical Message on Creation. Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1988.

Kovacs, Judith L. “‘Now Shall the Ruler of This World Be Driven Out’: Jesus’ Death as Cosmic Battle in John 12:20-36.” Journal of Biblical Literature 114 (1995): 227-47.

Kraft, Charles H. Christianity with Power: Your Worldview and Your Experience of the Supernatural. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Servant Publications, 1989.

———, and M. White, eds. Behind Enemy Lines: An Advanced Guide to Spiritual Warfare. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Servant Books, 1994.

Kraft, Marguerite G. Understanding Spiritual Power: A Forgotten Dimension of Cross-Cultural Mission and Ministry. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1995.

Kuemmerlin-McLean, J. K. “Demons: Old Testament.” In The Anchor Bible Dictionary, 2: 138-40. Edited by David Noel Freedman. 6 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

Langton, Edward. The Essentials of Demonology: A Study of Jewish and Christian Doctrine, Its Origin and Development. London: Epworth, 1949.

———. Supernatural: The Doctrine of Spirits, Angels and Demons, from the Middle Ages to the Present Time. London: Rider, 1934.

Leeper, Elizabeth Ann. “Exorcism in Early Christianity,” Ph.D. diss., Duke University, 1991.

Lefevre, A. “Angel or Monster? The Power of Evil in the Old Testament.” In Satan: Essays Collected and Translated from “Etudes Carmelitaines,” 55-56. Edited by Bruno de Jésus-Marie. 1948. Translated by Malachy Carroll et al. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1951.

Leivestad, Ragnar. Christ the Conqueror: Ideas of Conflict and Victory in the New Testament. New York: Macmillan, 1954.

Levenson, Jon. Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988.

Lewis, C. S. The Problem of Pain. New York: Macmillan, 1945.

Lewis, Edwin. The Creator and the Adversary. New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1948.

Lindstöm, Fredrik. God and the Origin of Evil: A Contextual Analysis of Alleged Monistic Evidence in the Old Testament. Translated by Frederick H. Cryer. Lund, Sweden: Gleerup, 1983.

———. Suffering and Sin: Interpretations of Illness in the Individual Complaint Psalms. Translated by M. McLamb. Coniectanea Biblica Old Testament Series 37. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1994.

Ling, Trevor Oswald. The Significance of Satan: New Testament Demonology and Its Contemporary Significance. London: SPCK, 1961.

Longman, Tremper, III, and Daniel G. Reid. God Is a Warrior. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1995.

Lust, J. “Devils and Angels in the Old Testament.” Louvain Studies 5 (1974): 115-20.

Martin, Malachi. Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Living Americans. New York: Reader’s Digest Press, 1976.

Mascall, E. L. Christian Theology and Natural Science: Some Questions on Their Relations. London: Longmans, Green, 1956.

Mbiti, John S. African Religions and Philosophy. New York: Praeger, 1969.

McCabe, L. D. Divine Nescience of Future Contingencies a Necessity. New York: Phillips and Hunt, 1882.

———. The Foreknowledge of God. Cincinnati: Granston and Stowe, 1887.

Milingo, Emmanuel. The World in Between: Christian Healing and the Struggle for Spiritual Survival. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1984.

Miller, Patrick D. “The Divine Council and the Prophetic Call to War.” Vetus Testamentum 18 (1968): 100-107.

———. “El the Warrior.” Harvard Theological Review 60 (1967): 428-31.

———. “God the Warrior.” Interpretation 19 (1965): 39-40.

———. The Divine Warrior in Early Israel. Harvard Semitic Monographs 5. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973.

Mills, Mary E. Human Agents of Cosmic Power in Hellenistic Judaism and the Synoptic Tradition. Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series 41. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1990.

Montgomery, John Warwick, ed. Demon Possession: A Medical, Historical, Anthropological and Theological Symposium. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1976.

Morgenstern, J. “The Mythical Background of Psalm 82.” Hebrew Union College Annual 14 (1939): 29-126.

Mullen, E. Theodore. The Assembly of the Gods: The Divine Council in Canaanite and Early Hebrew Literature. Harvard Semitic Monographs 24. Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press, 1980.

Murray, R. Cosmic Covenant: Biblical Themes of Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation. Great Britain: Sheed & Ward, 1992.

Nel, P. J. “The Conception of Evil and Satan in Jewish Traditions in the Pre-Christian Period.” In Like a Roaring Lion—Essays on the Bible, the Church and Demonic Powers, 6-7. Edited by Pieter G. R. de Villiers. Pretoria: University of South Africa, 1987.

Nigosian, Solomon Alexander. Occultism in the Old Testament. Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1978.

O’Brien, P. “Principalities and Powers: Opponents of the Church.” Evangelical Review of Theology 16 (October 1992): 353-84.

Osterreich, Traugott Konstantin. Possession and Exorcism: Among Primitive Races, in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modern Times. 1921. Reprint, New York: Causeway, 1974.

Page, Hugh R. The Myth of Cosmic Rebellion: A Study of Its Reflexes in Ugaritic and Biblical Literature. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 65. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996.

Page, Sydney H. T. Powers of Evil: A Biblical Study of Satan and Demons. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 1995.

Pagels, Elaine. The Origin of Satan. New York: Random House, 1995.

———. “The Social History of Satan, the ‘Intimate Enemy’: A Preliminary Sketch.” Harvard Theological Review 84/2 (1991): 112.

Peck, M. Scott. People of the Lie. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983.

Peels, H. G. L. The Vengeance of God: The Meaning of the Root NQM and the Function of the NQM-Texts in Context of Divine Revelation in the Old Testament. Oudtestamentische Studiën 31. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995.

Penelhum, Terence. Religion and Rationality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion. New York: Random House, 1971.

Peretti, Frank. Piercing the Darkness. Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway, 1989.

———. This Present Darkness. Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway, 1986.

Pinnock, Clark, et al. The Openness of God. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press; Carlisle, U.K.: Paternoster Press, 1994.

Placher, William C. The Domestication of Transcendence: How Modern Thinking About God Went Wrong. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1996.

Plantinga, Alvin. God, Freedom and Evil. New York: Harper & Row, 1974.

———. The Nature of Necessity. Oxford: Clarendon, 1974.

Rice, Richard. God’s Foreknowledge and Man’s Free Will. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1985.

Robinson, H. Wheeler. “The Council of Yahweh.” Journal of Theological Studies 45 (1944): 151-57.

Rodewyk, Adolf. Possessed by Satan. 1963. Translated by Martin Ebon. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975.

Russell, Jeffrey Burton. The Devil: Perceptions of Evil From Antiquity to Primitive Christianity. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1977.

———. The Prince of Darkness. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988.

———. Satan: The Early Christian Tradition. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1981.

Sauer, E. The King of the Earth. 1959. Reprint, Palm Springs, Calif.: Ronald N. Hayes, 1981.

Schäfer, Peter. Rivalität Zwischen Engeln und Menschen: Untersuchungen zur rabbinischen Engelvorstellung. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1975.

Schlier, Heinrich. Principalities and Powers in the New Testament. New York: Herder and Herder, 1961.

Schmidt, Wilhelm. Der Ursprung der Gottesidee: Eine historisch-kristische und positive Studie. 12 vols. Münster in Westfalen: Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1926-1955.

Scott, M. “The Morality of Theodicies.” Religious Studies 32/1 (1996): 1-13.

Sider, Ronald J. Christ and Violence. Scottdale, Penn.: Herald Press, 1979.

Smith, Jonathan Z. “Towards Interpreting Demonic Powers in Hellenistic and Roman Antiquity.” Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt (1978): 2.16.1, 425-39.

Snaith, N. A. “The Advent of Monotheism in Israel.” The Annual of Leeds University Oriental Society 5 (1963-65): 100-13.

Stewart, J. S. “On a Neglected Emphasis in New Testament Theology.” Scottish Journal of Theology 4 (1951): 292-301.

Surin, Kenneth. Theology and the Problem of Evil. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.

Tate, M. E. “Satan in the Old Testament.” Review and Expositor 89 (Fall 1992): 462.

Thompson, R. Campbell. The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia. London: Luzac, 1903-1904.

Tilley, Terrence W. The Evils of Theodicy. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1991.

Tremmel, William C. Dark Side: The Satan Story. St. Louis: CBP, 1987.

Tsevat, Matitiahu. “God and the Gods in Assembly.” Hebrew Union College Annual 40/41 (1969-1970): 123-37.

Turner, Edith L. B. Experiencing Ritual: A New Interpretation of African Healing. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.

———. “The Reality of Spirits.” ReVision 15/1 (1992): 28-32.

Unger, Merrill Frederick. “Rethinking the Genesis Account of Creation.” Bibliotheca Sacra 115 (January-March 1958): 27-35.

Wakeman, Mary. God’s Battle with the Monster: A Study in Biblical Imagery. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1973.

Waltke, Bruce K. “The Creation Account in Genesis 1:1-3: Part I: Introduction to Biblical Cosmology.” Bibliotheca Sacra 121 (October-December 1975): 25-36.

———. “The Creation Account in Genesis 1:1-3: Part II: The Restitution Theory.” Biblotheca Sacra 122 (July-September, 1975): 136-44.

Webb, Clement C. J. Problems in the Relations of God and Man. London: Nisbet, 1941.

Webber, Robert E. The Church in the World: Opposition, Tension or Transformation? Grand Rapids, Mich.: Academie/Zondervan, 1986.

Wingren, Gustaf. The Living Word: A Theological Study of Preaching and the Church. 1949. Translated by T. V. Pague. Philadelphia: Muhlenberg, 1960.

Wink, Walter. Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992.

———. Naming the Powers: The Language of Power in the New Testament. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984.

———. Unmasking the Powers: The Invisible Forces That Determine Human Existence. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986.

Worsely, Richard. Human Freedom and the Logic of Evil: Prolegomenon to a Christian Theology of Evil. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin’s, 1996.

Wright, R. K. McGregor. No Place for Sovereignty: What’s Wrong with Freewill Theism. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1996.

Yamauchi, Edwin. “Magic or Miracle? Diseases, Demons and Exorcisms.” In The Miracles of Jesus, 89-183. Gospel Perspectives 6. Edited by David Wenham and Craig Blomberg. 6 vols. Sheffield, U.K.: JSOT, 1986.

Yates, R. “Jesus and the Demonic in the Synoptic Gospels.” Irish Theological Quarterly 44 (1977): 39-57.

———. “The Powers of Evil in the New Testament.” The Evangelical Quarterly 52/2 (1980): 99.