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Genre/Form: | Biography NonFiction Christian Historical Religious |
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Named Person: | Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ.; Jesus Christus; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ. |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Reza Aslan |
ISBN: | 9781400069224 140006922X 9780812981483 0812981480 9780679603535 0679603530 |
OCLC Number: | 852257871 |
Description: | xxxi, 296 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Map: first-century Palestine -- The temple in Jerusalem -- Prologue: A different sort of sacrifice -- A hole in the corner -- King of the Jews -- You know where I am from -- The fourth philosophy -- Where is your fleet to sweep the Roman seas? -- Year one -- Zeal for your house -- The voice crying out in the wilderness -- Follow me -- By the finger of God -- May your kingdom come -- Who do you say I am? -- No king but Caesar -- God made flesh -- If Christ has not been risen -- Am I not an apostle? -- The just one -- True God from true God. |
Other Titles: | Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth |
Responsibility: | Reza Aslan. |
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Abstract:
"Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher 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 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 history'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"--Publisher's website.
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