attacked, the right ritual should effect the cure.… Humans, as well as devils, might work evil against a person by the black arts, and here too the appropriate ritual was required.”18 The Priestly theology negates these premises. It posits the existence of one supreme God who contends neither with a higher realm nor with competing peers. The world of demons is abolished; there is no struggle with autonomous foes, because there are none. With the demise of the demons, only one creature remains with