Iesus Deus: The Early Christian Depiction of Jesus as a Mediterranean God
Mar 2014 · Fortress Press
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What does it mean for Jesus to be deified in early Christian literature? Early Christians did not simply assert Jesus divinity; in their literature, they depicted Jesus with the specific and widely recognized traits of Mediterranean deities.
Relying on the methods of the history of religions and ranging judiciously across Hellenistic literature, M. David Litwa shows that at each stage in their depiction of Jesus life and ministry, early Christian writings from the beginning relied on categories drawn not from Judaism alone, but on a wide, pan-Mediterranean understanding of deity.
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M. David Litwa is a prolific scholar of ancient Christianities, including Gnostic Christianities, in their ancient Mediterranean contexts. With over a dozen years of experience teaching in person and online, he's helping to change academic culture as a public intellectual with global reach.
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