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Desiring divinity : self-deification in early Jewish and Christian mythmaking

Title
Desiring divinity : self-deification in early Jewish and Christian mythmaking / M. David Litwa.
Author
Litwa, M. David
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

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x, 239 pages; 25 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-235) and index.
Contents
Types of self-deification mythology -- The self-deifying rebel -- I am a god, the primal human as primeval self-deifier -- I will be like the most high! the self-deification of Helel -- I am God and there is no other! the boast of Yaldabaoth -- The self-deifying hero -- I and the Father are one, the self-deification of Jesus in John -- I and you are one, Simon of Samaria as hero and heretic -- I became divine, Allogenes and gnostic self-deification -- The many myths of self-deification.
Call Number
JFE 16-12093
ISBN
  • 9780190467166
  • 0190467169
LCCN
2015051032
OCLC
947145274
Author
Litwa, M. David, author.
Title
Desiring divinity : self-deification in early Jewish and Christian mythmaking / M. David Litwa.
Publisher
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-235) and index.
Other Form:
Online version: Litwa, M. David, author. Desiring divinity. New York : Oxford University Press USA, 2016 9780190467173
Research Call Number
JFE 16-12093
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