Research archive · Published works
Research on Scripture, demonology, protective prayer, Qumran, and the worlds behind the Gospels.
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Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament II/451 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017)
Michael J. Morris examines preventative protection from demonic evil in the Dead Sea Scrolls and asks how those traditions illuminate the Synoptic Gospels.
Book chapter · 02
In Ideas of Possession: Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2024), 57–72
Michael J. Morris contributes a full chapter to an Oxford University Press volume, tracing authoritative words and powerful names across ancient Jewish and Christian responses to demonic affliction.
Journal article · 03
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 78 (2016), 290–301
Michael J. Morris examines Jesus’s use of Deuteronomy against Satan in Matthew 4 and Luke 4 alongside early Jewish apotropaic traditions.
Book chapter · 04
In Das Böse, der Teufel und Dämonen – Evil, the Devil, and Demons (Mohr Siebeck, 2016), 93–100
Michael J. Morris reads Satan’s use of Psalm 91 in the Gospel temptation narratives through an inversion technique attested at Qumran.