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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