How Jesus Became God : the Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
Bart D. Ehrman examines how Jesus, described as a Jewish preacher from Galilee, came to be understood as God. Focusing on the religious and historical transformation at the heart of Christian belief, this book considers the development of ideas about Jesus’s identity and exaltation.
About This Book
How Jesus Became God examines the transformation identified in its subtitle: the exaltation of Jesus, a Jewish preacher from Galilee, into a figure understood as divine.
Bart D. Ehrman approaches this subject through the relationship between Jesus’s historical identity and the beliefs that developed about him.
The book offers a study of the religious and historical questions surrounding how Jesus came to be regarded as God.
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