Zealot : the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400069224 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 140006922X (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
xxxiv, 296 pages : illustration, map ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2013]
- Copyright: ©2013
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-282) and index. |
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Subject: | Church history Bible Bible History of Biblical events Jesus Christ |
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- Baker & Taylor
The author of the best-sellingNo God but God presents a meticulously researched biography of Jesus that draws on biblical and historical sources to place His achievements and influence against the turbulent backdrop of His time. - Baker & Taylor
Presents a meticulously researched biography of Jesus that draws on biblical and historical sources to place his achievements and influence against the turbulent backdrop of his time. - Random House, Inc.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠âA lucid, intelligent page-turnerâ (Los Angeles Times) that challenges long-held assumptions about Jesus, from the host of Believer
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Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish what he called the âKingdom of God.â The revolutionary movement he launched was so threatening to the established order that he was executed as a state criminal. Within decades after his death, his followers would call him God.
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Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of historyâs most enigmatic figures by examining Jesus through the lens of the tumultuous era in which he lived. Balancing the Jesus of the Gospels against the historical sources, Aslan describes a man full of conviction and passion, yet rife with contradiction. He explores the reasons the early Christian church preferred to promulgate an image of Jesus as a peaceful spiritual teacher rather than a politically conscious revolutionary. And he grapples with the riddle of how Jesus understood himself, the mystery that is at the heart of all subsequent claims about his divinity.
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Zealot yields a fresh perspective on one of the greatest stories ever told even as it affirms the radical and transformative nature of Jesusâ life and mission.
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Praise for Zealot
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âRiveting . . . Aslan synthesizes Scripture and scholarship to create an original account.ââThe New Yorker
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âFascinatingly and convincingly drawn . . . Aslan may come as close as one can to respecting those who revere Jesus as the peace-loving, turn-the-other-cheek, true son of God depicted in modern Christianity, even as he knocks down that image.ââThe Seattle Times
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â[Aslanâs] literary talent is as essential to the effect of Zealot as are his scholarly and journalistic chops. . . . A vivid, persuasive portrait.ââSalon
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âThis tough-minded, deeply political book does full justice to the real Jesus, and honors him in the process.ââSan Francisco Chronicle
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âA special and revealing work, one that believer and skeptic alike will find surprising, engaging, and original.ââJon Meacham, Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
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âCompulsively readable . . . This superb work is highly recommended.ââPublishers Weekly (starred review)