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New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how jesus' divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church. The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the originals believe during Jesus' lifetime--and it is not what Jesus claimed about himself. How Jesus Became God tells the story of an idea that shaped Christianity, and of the evolution of a belief that looked very different in the fourth century than it did in the first. A master explainer of Christian history, texts, and traditions, Ehrman reveals how an apocalyptic prophet from the backwaters of rural Galilee crucified for crimes against the state came to be thought of as equal with the one God Almighty, The creator of all things But how did he move from being a Jewish prophet to being God? In a book that took eight years to research and write Ehrman sketches jesus' s transformation from a human prophet to the Son of God extended to divine status at his resurrection. Only when some of jesus' followers had visions of him after his death--alive again--did anyone come to think that he, the prophet from Galilee, had become God. And what they mean by that was not at all what people mean today Written for secular historians of religion and believers like, How Jesus Became God will engage anyone interrupted in the historical developments that led to the affirmation at the heart of Christianity: Jesus was, and is, God. Product details. Paperback format | 416 pages. Dimensions 135x205 x 27mm | 296G Publication date 10 Apr 2015 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc. Imprint HarperCollins Publication City / Country New York, United States English language Annotated edition Edition Statement Annotated edition Isbn 10 0061778192 Isbn 13 9780061778193 Bestsellers rank 32,819