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February 04, 2015
A first century messiah with legs.
How did an illiterate and very likely married young Jewish day laborer from a Galilean backwater who rose up against an entrenched Roman-Jewish priesthood establishment as a messiah and was killed by the regional establishment like a dozen other messiahs in the same region during the same period for the same crowd control-related reasons become the focal point of a major and enduring world religion? "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth" is the best selling book by Iranian-American author Reza Aslan published by Random House in mid-2013. Zealot is not going to make everyone happy but it's a brave and competent piece of scholarship that every culturally literate person should critically read.
Posted by JD Hull at 08:35 PM | Comments (0)