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Zealot : The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth / Reza Aslan

By:

Aslan, Reza

Material type: Text

TextDescription: 296 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

9781400069224

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DDC classification:

232.901 ASL

LOC classification:

BT301.3 .A85 2013

Summary: A fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long - held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth. Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish what he called the "Kingdom of God." The revolutionary movement he launched was so threatening to the established order that he was captured, tortured, and executed as a state criminal. Within decades after his shameful death, his followers would call him God. Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history's most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus through the lens of the tumultuous era in which he lived:

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	232.901 ASL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		019078

Includes bibliographical references and index

A fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long - held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth. Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish what he called the "Kingdom of God." The revolutionary movement he launched was so threatening to the established order that he was captured, tortured, and executed as a state criminal. Within decades after his shameful death, his followers would call him God. Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history's most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus through the lens of the tumultuous era in which he lived:

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