A compendium of poems. Engaging and insightful poems on the life of Christ. These are written for all ages, academics, and ordinary people. The author played with words and style and incorporated her own style while presenting the matter. Her mastery of language and style shines throughout. In the first section, The Life of Christ, the author celebrates and captures the essence of His life from conception to His second coming. She presented the parables Christ taught in a compelling way. L...

What does it mean for Jesus to be “deified” in early Christian literature? Although the divinity of Jesus was a topic of profound and contested discussion in Christianity’s early centuries, believers did not simply assert that Jesus was divine; in their literature, they depicted Jesus with the specific and widely-recognized traits of Mediterranean deities. Relying on the methods of the history of religions school and ranging judiciously across Hellenistic literature, M. David Litwa shows t...