Zealot - The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
تاريخ النشر: 15/08/2013
الناشر: دار الساقي للطباعة والنشر
نبذة الناشر:Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds
new light on one of history’s most influential and enigmatic
figures by examining Jesus within the context of the times in
which he lived: the age of zealotry, an era awash in apocalyptic
fervour, when scores of Jewish prophets and would-be messiahs
wandered the Holy Land bearing ...messages from God. They
also espoused a fervent nationalism that made resistance to
Roman occupation a sacred duty.
Balancing the Jesus of the Gospels against historical
sources, Aslan describes a complex figure: a man of peace who
exhorted his followers to arm themselves; an exorcist and faith
healer who urged his disciples to keep his identity secret; and
the seditious ‘King of the Jews’, whose promise of liberation
from Rome went unfulfilled in his lifetime. Aslan explores
why the early Church preferred to promulgate an image of
Jesus as a peaceful spiritual teacher rather than a politically
conscious revolutionary, and grapples with the riddle of how
Jesus understood himself.
Zealot provides a fresh perspective on one of the greatest
stories ever told. The result is a thought-provoking, elegantly
written biography with the pulse of a fast-paced novel, and a
singularly brilliant portrait of a man, a time and the birth of
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