At the maximum-security prison, a correctional officer escorts me up the long, wide passageway that intersects with the housing units, the usual route to the classroom where I teach each week. As we ...

University of Birmingham provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Young Miles worries about whether or not the Gerasene demoniac – a man on whom Jesus performed an exorcism, ...

Mark 3:1-6 Jesus and his disciples came to the other side of the sea, to the territory of the Gerasenes. 2When he got out of the boat, at once a man from the tombs who had an unclean spirit met him.

Jesus’ dramatic encounter with the Gerasene demoniac contains allusions to the presence of strong Greek and Roman influence in the region of the Decapolis, or 10 cities, east of the Sea of Galilee in ...