Iesus Deus

<p><span style=font-size: 12px;>What does it mean for Jesus to be deified in early Christian literature? Early Christians did not simply <b>assert </b>Jesus divinity; in their literature they <b>depicted </b>Jesus with the specific and widely recognized traits of Mediterranean deities.</span><p></p><span style=font-size: 12px;>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.</span></p>