Iesus Deus
the early christian depiction of jesus as a mediterranean god
$80.15
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
28 February 2014
Summary
What does it mean for Jesus to be “deified” in early Christian literature? Although the divinity of Jesus was a topic of profound and contested discussion in Christianity’s early centuries, believers did not simply assert that Jesus was divine; 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 school and ranging judiciously across Hellenistic literature, M. David Litwa shows that…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781451473032 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1451473036 |
| Author: | M. David Litwa |
| Publisher: | Augsburg Fortress Publishers |
| Imprint: | Fortress Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 28 February 2014 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
M. David Litwa
M. David Litwa (Ph.D.) currently teaches Greek at the University of Virginia. He is the author of We Are Being Transformed: Deification in Paul’s Soteriology (2012) and Becoming Divine: An Introduction to Deification in Western Culture (2013).
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