larger pattern. According to the sources as a whole, Jesus was an exorcist who thought of himself as successfully combating the devil. How should we account for this fact? I would argue, if demonology were our subject (which it is not), that in this particular our texts remember rightly. Modern medical experiments supply an analogy to my approach. Even a perfectly devised double-blind, randomized trial counts for little if taken by itself. What matters is replication. And for highly controverted