World Saviors and Messiahs of the Roman Rmpire, 28 bce-135 ce
Subtitle: the soterial age
By: Milo Kearney and James Zeitz ; with a foreword by Daniel Liderbach.
Contributors: Zeitz, James V.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewiston, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780773448391
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Messiahship; Messianism; Messiah
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The preparation for the Soterial Age; title: Why the Soterial Age occurred when it did; title: The Zoroastrian and Mithraic Soterial expectations; title: The Jewish Soterial expectations; title: The Greco-Roman Soterial expectations; title: The prophetic dating of the death of an anointed one; title: The prophetic dating of the birth of the World Savior; title: The coming of the Soterial Age; title: The first soterial claimants; title: The peaceful claimants from Palestine in the 30s CE; title: The peak period of Roman claimants; title: The peak period of Greek claimants; title: Why Jesus' followers prevailed; title: The universal setting of the Soterial Age.