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The Roman practice of treating the emperor as divine, with imperial images and statues functioning as a cult of personality.
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imperial cult
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Pontius Pilate had a problem. He was trying to enforce the imperial cult."
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Jiang's historical alternative says Jesus' crucifixion was not the tradition's redemptive plot but Pilate's political gesture in a conflict over the imperial cult.
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"...Pontius Pilate had a problem. He was trying to enforce the imperial cult."
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"The imperial cult basically just means to think of the Emperor as God, and so think of a cult of personality. His picture, his..."
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Christianity wins twice in this lecture: first as a Roman-compatible institution, then as a strange formula that trains people to treat symbols as reality.
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