The Naassenes: Exploring an Early Christian Identity - Paperback

by M. David Litwa (Author)

This volume offers an accessible investigation of the Naassene discourse embedded in the anonymous Refutation of All Heresies (completed about 222 CE), in order to understand the theology and ritual life of the Naassene Christian movement in the late second and early third centuries CE.

Author Biography

M. David Litwa (PhD, 2013) is a scholar of ancient Mediterranean religions with a focus on the New Testament and early Christianity. He has taught courses at the University of Virginia, the College of William & Mary, and Virginia Tech. From 2017 to 2023, he was Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry in Melbourne, Australia. He currently works as a writer and editor for New Testament Abstracts at Boston College.