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2023-04-09

BRUNO BAUER: Christ and the Caesars – in English

 

Machine translated by Neil Godfrey from Christus und die Caesaren. Der Ursprung des Christenthums aus dem römischen Griechenthum
March 2023

  1. Contents and Preface
  2. I. Seneca’s Religious Foundation
  3. II. Seneca as Teacher and Minister of Nero
  4. III. Nero’s and Seneca’s Downfall
  5. IV. The House of Flavia and Judaism
  6. V. Trajan and the Emergence of Christianity
  7. VI. Hadrian and Christian Gnosis
  8. VII. The Time of Marcus Aurelius
  9. VIII. The Completion of the New Testament Literature
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