Zealot

Release Date:- 2013-07-16

Reviews Counts:- 973

User Average Rating:- 4

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$8.99

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā€¢ ā€œA lucid, intelligent page-turnerā€ (Los Angeles Times) that challenges long-held assumptions about Jesus
 
Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish what he called the ā€œKingdom of God.ā€ 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.
 
Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of historyā€™s 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.
 
Zealot yields a fresh perspective on one of the greatest stories ever told even as it affirms the radical and transformative nature of Jesusā€™ life and mission.
 
Praise for Zealot
 
ā€œRiveting . . . Aslan synthesizes Scripture and scholarship to create an original account.ā€ā€”The New Yorker

ā€œFascinatingly 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.ā€ā€”The Seattle Times
 
ā€œ[Aslanā€™s] literary talent is as essential to the effect of Zealot as are his scholarly and journalistic chops. . . . A vivid, persuasive portrait.ā€ā€”Salon

ā€œThis tough-minded, deeply political book does full justice to the real Jesus, and honors him in the process.ā€ā€”San Francisco Chronicle
 
ā€œA special and revealing work, one that believer and skeptic alike will find surprising, engaging, and original.ā€ā€”Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prizeā€“winning author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
 
ā€œCompulsively readable . . . This superb work is highly recommended.ā€ā€”Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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