David Litwa is a scholar of ancient Mediterranean religions with a focus on the New Testament and early Christianity. His current research question focuses on the development of earliest Christianities in Alexandria, Egypt.
Before joining Australian Catholic University, Litwa taught at Virginia Tech, the College of William & Mary, and the University of Virginia (UVA). In 2012, he received his Ph.D. from the Religious Studies department at UVA. Prior to that he received an M.Div at Emory University and a Th.M. at Duke University. Currently He serves as unit chair of the Bible, Myth, and Myth Theory Group at the Society of Biblical Literature and as co-chair of the Biblical and Early Christian Studies Seminar at ACU.
Marcion of Sinope (c. 85 – c. 160) was an early Christian theologian in early Christianity. Marcion preached that God had sent Jesus Christ, who was an entirely new, alien god, distinct from the “vengeful” God (Demiurge) who had created the world (cosmocrator). He considered himself a follower of Paul the Apostle, whom he believed to have been the only true apostle of Jesus Christ; his doctrine is called Marcionism. Marcion published the earliest record of a canon of New Testament books.
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