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Christians Borrow Imperial Marketing, Launch Competing Savior Campaign

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Christians Borrow Imperial Marketing, Launch Competing Savior Campaign

Stories of a remarkable birth, promises of salvation and the announcement of “good news” surrounded Rome’s first emperor. Classicist Tim Whitmarsh argues that early Christians adapted elements of this imperial language to explain the significance of Jesus

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