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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==

*[ Google Books]


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