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Approaching the Christmas period focuses on one man whose life personified conflict and He left a conflictual legacy.
This was Jesus of Nazareth, born in Bethlehem and raised in Alexandria and Nazareth as Caesar Augustus was consolidating power and changing Rome from being a 'Republic' into an 'Empire'.
When Augustus died in 14 CE, his stepson, Tiberius, inherited the Empire. Thus Jesus, revered as the 'Christ', lived during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius. He claimed to have divine connections and being the only 'way' to reach God.
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