This monograph presents the case that Mark's demon miracles symbolically portray Jesus cleansing the nation.

Uses echoes with the Jewish Scriptures, Mark shows Jesus offering the people a liberation from the political realities of their day in a future kingdom of God. Thus, Mark uses the cosmological dualism of his day to represent an enacted parable in Jesus' exorcisms. Taking the language used in the encounter between Jesus and demons., Mark configures the demon as a demoniac representing the people, Jesus' casting out of the demon is a symbolic portrayal of the liberation of the people