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Iesus Deus

The Early Christian Depiction of Jesus as a Mediterranean God

by M. David Litwa

  • Paperback
  • 208 pages
  • Publisher: Fortress Press,U.S.
  • 15.3 x 22.7 x 1.8 cm

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For scholars and believers interested in early Christianity

Clarifies how Jesus was depicted in ancient literature

You will deepen your understanding of Jesus' divinity

Iesus Deus explores the early Christian view of Jesus as a Mediterranean deity.

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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 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: how gods were born, how they acted to manifest power, even how they died-and, after death, how they were taken up into heaven and pronounced divine. Litwa's samples take us beyond the realm of abstract theology to dwell in the second- and third-century imagination of what it meant to be a god and shows that the Christian depiction of Christ was quite at home there.
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  • Author

    M. David Litwa

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Fortress Press,U.S.

  • Published

    March 2014

  • Weight

    364g

  • Page Count

    208

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.7 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781451473032

  • ISBN-10

    1451473036

  • Eden Code

    4260295

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