World Saviors and Messiahs of the Roman Empire, 28 BCE-135 CE (2009 Kearney, Zeitz), book

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World Saviors and Messiahs of the Roman Empire, 28 BCE-135 CE: The Soterial Age (2009) is a book by Milo Kearney and James Zeitz.

Abstract

"This book seeks to achieve a better understanding of Jesus and of the birth of Christianity by placing them in the context of twenty-some living World Saviors and Messiahs who appeared in the first century-and-a-half of the Roman Empire (here defined as the Soterial Age or the Age of Saviors)."--Publisher description.

Editions and translations

Published in Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2009.

Contents

Foreword / Daniel Liderbach

Introduction

A. The Preparation for the Soterial Age

  • 1. Why the Soterial Age Occurred When It Did
  • 2. The Zoroastrian and Mithraic Soterial Expectations
  • 3. The Jewish Soterial Expectations
  • 4. The Greco-Roman Soterial Expectations
  • 5. The Prophetic Dating of the Death of an Anointed One
  • 6. The Prophetic Dating of the Birth of the World Savior

B. The Coming of the Soterial Age

  • 7. The First Soterial Claimants
  • 8. The Peaceful Claimants from Palestine in the 30s CE
  • 9. The Peak Period of Roman Claimants
  • 10. The Peak Period of Greek Claimants
  • 11. Why Jesus’ Followers Prevailed
  • 12. The Universal Setting of the Soterial Age

Conclusion

Bibliography -- Index

External links

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