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Research on Scripture, demonology, protective prayer, Qumran, and the worlds behind the Gospels.

Paper 01

Deuteronomy in the Matthean and Lucan Temptation in Light of Early Jewish Antidemonic Tradition

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.

Paper 02

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.