M. David Litwa is a scholar of ancient Mediterranean religions and Research Fellow at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry in Melbourne. His most recent books include Desiring Divinity: Self-deification in Ancient Jewish and Christian Mythmaking and Hermetica II: The Excerpts of Stobaeus, Papyrus Fragments, and Ancient Testimonies.
“Litwa offers a philosophically sophisticated yet immanently
accessible explanation of the relationship between history and myth
in the early Christian gospels.”—Clare K. Rothschild, author of
Paul in Athens
“In this book Litwa introduces the category of “mythic
historiography” and shows that it is a compelling description of
what the Gospels are. He rightly argues that these narratives make
truth claims about individual events. At the same time, many of the
events cannot be accepted in our culture generally as historical
fact. The qualifier “mythic” grasps this cultural situation while
indicating the deep existential importance of the Gospels that
engages many readers.”—Adela Yarbro Collins, Yale Divinity
School
“In this remarkably clear and learned work, David Litwa shows
himself once more to be one of the best scholars working today in
the intertextual terrain that lies between Greco-Roman
literature and the New Testament.”—William Hutton, College of
William and Mary
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