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World Saviors and Messiahs of the Roman Empire, 28 BCE-135 CE: The Soterial Age
Author(s): Milo Kearney (Author), James Zeitz (Author)
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 Mar. 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 432 pages
- ISBN-10: 077344839X
- ISBN-13: 9780773448391
Book Description
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 apeared in the first century-and-a-half of the Roman Empire (here defined as the Soterial Age or the Age of Saviors).
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About the Author
Dr. Kearney is a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Texas at Brownsville. He holds a Ph.D. in Western European Medieval History from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Zeitz is an Associate Professor of Theology at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. He hold a Ph.D in Theology from the Institut Catholique de Paris, France.
