in the OT in reference to various individuals (Judg. 3:9, 15) and to God himself (1 Sam. 10:19; Isa. 45:15, 21). All of these verses in the LXX use the word “savior” that Luke uses in 2:11. In the Greek and Roman worlds the word “savior” (sōtēr) was often applied to the gods (such as Zeus) and to great military and political figures. One ancient inscription calls Julius Caesar “god manifest and common savior of human life” (Fitzmyer, p. 204). Thus, the reference to Jesus as “Savior” would be a title