TY - GEN N2 - Perhaps no declaration incites more outrage than a human's claim to be God. Those who make this claim in ancient Jewish and Christian mythology are typically either demonized or deified. This work examines this topic. AB - Perhaps no declaration incites more outrage than a human's claim to be God. Those who make this claim in ancient Jewish and Christian mythology are typically either demonized or deified. This work examines this topic. T1 - Desiring divinity :self-deification in early Jewish and Christian mythmaking / AU - Litwa, M. David, CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - BL465 ID - 799161 KW - Apotheosis. KW - Judaism KW - Deification (Christianity) KW - God. SN - 9780190467180 TI - Desiring divinity :self-deification in early Jewish and Christian mythmaking / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190467166.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190467166.001.0001 ER -