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In this video, we discuss how Simon the Samaritan (Simon Magus/Simon the Sorcerer) was deified, made into a statue and worshipped as Christ God on Tiber Island in the middle of Rome, Italy by an early sect of Christians that pre-date the Church. We also discuss the worship of Helena of Tyre, who is also worshipped as Athena Sophia, Goddess of Wisdom.
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M. David Litwa has a VAST amount of Credentials:
Research Fellow, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University, Australia
Co-coordinator, Biblical and Early Christian Studies Seminar
Library Liaison
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) University of Virginia
Master of Theology (Th.M.) Duke University
Master of Divinity (M.Div.) Emory University
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Found Christianities: Remaking the World in the Second Century CE (London: T&T Clark, 2022).
The Evil Creator: Origins of an Early Christian Idea (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021).
Posthuman Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Thought: Becoming Angels and Demons (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).
How the Gospels Became History: Jesus and Mediterranean Myths (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019).
Hermetica II: The Excerpts of Stobaeus, Papyrus Fragments, and Ancient Testimonies in a English Translation with Notes and Introductions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Desiring Divinity: Self-deification in Ancient Jewish and Christian Mythmaking. Forthcoming from Oxford University Press, 2016.
Refutation of All Heresies: Text, Translation, and Notes, Writings from the Greco-Roman World 40 (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2015).
Iesus Deus: The Early Christian Depiction of Jesus as a Mediterranean God (Minneapolis: Fortress Academic, 2014).
Becoming Divine: An Introduction to Deification in Western Culture (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2013)
We Are Being Transformed: Deification in Paul’s Soteriology (Beihefte zum Zeitschrift für Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 187; Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2012).
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
“The Father of the Devil (John 8:44): A Christian Exegetical Inspiration for the Evil Creator,” Vigiliae Christianae (2020): 1-26.
“Literary Eyewitnesses: The Appeal to an Eyewitness in John and Contemporaneous Literature,” New Testament Studies 64:3 (2018): 343-61.
“Paul the ‘god’ in Acts 28: A Comparison with Philoctetes,” Journal of Biblical Literature 136:3 (2017): 707-726.
“You are Gods”: Deification in the Naassene Writer and Clement of Alexandria,” Harvard Theological Review, 110:1 (2017): 125-48.
“Gnostic Self-deification: The Case of Simon of Samaria,” Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies 1 (2016): 157-76.
“Phikola: A Mysteries Goddess at Phlya,” Religion in the Roman Empire 2:2 (2016): 279-93.
“‘I Will Become Him’: Homology and Deification in the Gospel of Thomas,” Journal of Biblical Literature, 133:2 (2015): 427-47.
“The Deification of Moses in Philo of Alexandria” The Studia Philonica Annual 26 (2014): 1-27.
“The Wondrous Exchange: Irenaeus and Eastern Valentinians on the Soteriology of Interchange,” The Journal of Early Christian Studies 22 (2014): 311-41.
“The God ‘Human’ and Human Gods: Models of Deification in Irenaeus and the Apocryphon of John,” Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 18 (2014): 70-94.
“Transformation through a Mirror: Moses in 2 Cor 3:18,” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 34 (2012): 286-97.
“Paul’s Mosaic Ascent: An Interpretation of 2 Cor 12:7-9,” New Testament Studies 57 (2011): 238-57.
“Self Sacrifice to Save the Life of Another in Jewish and Christian Traditions: A Comparative Analysis,” Heythrop Journal 50:6 (2009): 912-922.
Instructor in Early Christianity, Virginia Tech Department of Religion and Culture, USA from August 2016 to June 2017
Lecturer in Classics, College of William & Mary, USA from January to May 2016
Lecturer in Classics, University of Virginia, USA from January 2013 to May 2015
Unit Chair for Bible, Myth, and Myth Theory, Society of Biblical Literature from 2015 to the present
Organizer
North American Patristics Society Open Call Session: Alternative Christianities (2020-2022)
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