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How Jesus became God : the exaltation of a Jewish preacher from Galilee / Bart D. Ehrman.

Ehrman, Bart D.
2014
232 E33h 2014
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Title
How Jesus became God : the exaltation of a Jewish preacher from Galilee / Bart D. Ehrman.
Author
Ehrman, Bart D.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780061778186 (hardback)
0061778184 (hardback)
9780061778193 (pbk)
0061778192 (pbk)
Published
New York, NY : HarperOne, 2014.
Language
English
Description
404 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number
232 E33h 2014
System Control No.
(OCoLC)863695009
(OCoLC)863695009
Summary
"In a book that took eight years to research and write, leading Bible scholar Bart D. Ehrman explores how an apocalyptic prophet from the backwaters of rural Galilee crucified for crimes against the state came to be thought of as equal with the one God Almighty Creator of all things. Ehrman sketches Jesus's transformation from a human prophet to the Son of God exalted to divine status at his resurrection. Only when some of Jesus' followers had visions of him after his death-- alive again-- did anyone come to think that he, the prophet from Galilee, had become God. And what they meant by that was not at all what people mean today" -- Dust jacket flap.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Divine humans in ancient Greece and Rome
Divine humans in ancient Judaism
Did Jesus think he was God?
The resurrection of Jesus: what we cannot know
The resurrection of Jesus: what we can know
The beginnings of Christology: Christ as exalted to heaven
Jesus as God on earth: early incarnation Christologies
After the New Testament: christological dead ends of the second and third centuries
Ortho-paradoxes on the road to Nicea
Epilogue. Jesus as God: the aftermath.
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