Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
by Reza Aslan
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- 140006922X
- ISBN 13
- 9781400069224
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New York, NY: Random House, 2013 Random House, New York. 2013. Hardcover. 8th Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: As New. DJ: As New; NOT Price Clipped ($27.00). Black paper over boards with black overlay on the spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 296 pp 8vo. 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. Zealot yields a fresh perspective on one of the greatest stories ever told even as it affirms the radical and transformative nature of Jesus' life and mission. A clean very presentable copy.
Synopsis
Reza Aslan is an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions. His first book, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, has been translated into thirteen languages and named by Blackwell as one of the hundred most important books of the last decade. He is also the author of How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror (published in paperback as Beyond Fundamentalism ), as well as the editor of Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East . Born in Iran, he lives in New York and Los Angeles with his wife and two sons.
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- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016401
- Title
- Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
- Author
- Reza Aslan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 140006922X
- ISBN 13
- 9781400069224
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2013
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- Jesus, Jesus Christ, Life of Jesus, Religion, Christianity, Christian Church, divinity, Zealot, Roman occupation, Jews, Kingdom of God.
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