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It contrasts traditional Christian explanations with scholarly historical approaches, posing the central problem: how a crucified peasant became the Lord who created all things. The author frames the study around key developments in early Christian belief, including Christological formulation and questions surrounding the resurrection.","DEDICATION  \nTo Sarah  \nCONTENTS  \nDEDICATION  \nACKNOWLEDGMENTS  \nINTRODUCTION  \n1 Divine Humans in Ancient Greece and Rome  \n2 Divine Humans in Ancient Judaism  \n3 Did Jesus Think He Was God?  \n4 The Resurrection of Jesus: What We Cannot Know  \n5 The Resurrection of Jesus: What We Can Know  \n6 The Beginning of Christology: Christ as Exalted to Heaven  \n7 Jesus as God on Earth: Early Incarnation Christologies  \n8 After the New Testament: Christological Dead Ends of the Second and Third Centuries  \n9 Ortho-Paradoxes on the Road to Nicea EPILOGUE: Jesus as God: The Aftermath  \nNOTES  \nSCRIPTURE INDEX  \nSUBJECT AND AUTHOR INDEX  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR  \nALSO BY BART D. EHRMAN  \nCREDITS COPYRIGHT  \nABOUT THE PUBLISHER  \nACKNOWLEDGMENTS  \nI WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE the scholars who have assisted me by reading an earlier draft of this book and providing extensive and helpful comments. If everyone had such insightful and generous friends and colleagues, the world would be a much happier place. My readers have been Maria Doerfler, a remarkable and wide-ranging scholar just now starting to teach church history as an assistant professor at Duke Divinity School; Joel Marcus, professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School, who for nearly thirty years has generously read my work and consistently spilled lots of red ink all over it; Dale Martin, professor of New Testament at Yale, my oldest friend and colleague in the field, whose critical insights have for very many years helped shape me as a scholar; and Michael Peppard, assistant professor of New Testament at Fordham University, whom I have only recently come to know and who has written a book, which I cite in the course of my study, that had a significant effect on my thinking.  \nI also thank the entire crew at HarperOne, especially Mark Tauber, publisher; Claudia Boutote, associate publisher; Julie Baker, my talented and energetic publicist; and above all Roger Freet, my perceptive and unusually helpful editor, who has helped make this a better book.  \nI am dedicating the book to my brilliant and scintillating wife, Sarah Beckwith. I dedicated another book to her years ago, but since I continuously rededicate my life to her, I think it is time torededicate a book to her. She is the most amazing person I know.  \nINTRODUCTION  \nJESUS WAS A LOWER-CLASS Jewish preacher from the backwaters of rural Galilee who was condemned for illegal activities and crucified for crimes against the state. Yet not long after his death, his followers were claiming that he was a divine being. Eventually they went even further, declaring that he was none other than God, Lord of heaven and earth. And so the question: How did a crucified peasant come to be thought of as the Lord who created all things? How did Jesus become God?  \nThe full irony of this question did not strike me until recently, when I was taking a long walk with one of my closest friends. As we talked, we covered a number of familiar topics: books we had been reading, movies we had seen, philosophical views we were thinking about. Eventually we got around to talking about religion. Unlike me, my friend continues to identify herself as a Christian. At one point, I asked her what she considered to be the core of her beliefs. Her answer gave me pause. She said that, for her, the heart of religion was the idea that in Jesus, God had become a man.  \nOne of the reasons I was taken aback by her response was that this used to be one of my beliefs as well—even though it hasn’t been for years. As far back as high school, I had pondered long and hard this “mystery of faith,” as found, for example, in John 1 : 1–2, 14: “In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. . . . 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