M. David Litwa
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M. David Litwa

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Dr. Litwa has broad interests in the fields of early Christianity, Hellenistic Judaism, ruler cult, classical mythology, and Greco-Roman religions. His career began with a monograph on deification (becoming god) as seen through the lens of the Pauline writings (We Are Being Transformed 2012). In 2013, he offered a general introduction to deification in Western culture from the Pharaohs to modern Transhumanists. Then in 2016, he focused on the politics and literature of self-deification (Desiring Divinity). He has twice engaged gospel literature as a witness to Jesus’s literary deification (Iesus Deus, 2014) and to a particular historiographical genre (How the Gospels Became History, 2019). A fascination with alternative Christian movements inspired him to edit and translate the anonymous Refutation of All Heresies (2016). After that came the annotated translation of important Hermetic testimonia and fragments (Hermetica II, 2018). Litwa has recently finished a project on angelification traditions in Hellenic and Christian literature (Posthuman Transformation, forthcoming 2021). He has just published history of alternative Christian movements in the second-century CE (Found Christianities). A full book on one of these movements, the Carpocratians, came out in 2022. Check it out for the first ever fully commentary on "Secret Mark." For Dr. Litwa's online teaching platform, see patreon.com/mdavidlitwa. See also: https://mdavidlitwa.wordpress.com/ https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/schools/stm/faculty/faculty-directory/m-david-litwa.html For a podcast on deification in the Hermetica, visit https://shwep.net/podcast/ Episode 107. For the most recent Podcast on How the Gospels Became History: https://player.fm/series/new-books-in-biblical-studies-2421500/m-david-litwa-how-the-gospels-became-history-jesus-and-mediterranean-myths-yale-up-2019 For a podcast on the topic of heresy writing and in particular the Refutation of All Heresies, please jump to: http://gnosticwisdom.net/the-heresiologists/ For a podcast on the topic of deification, please jump to: http://gnosticwisdom.net/personal-deification/
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