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![]() ![]() The earliest written records of Jesus’s life are housed in the Gospel of Mark, which scholars date approximately sixty years after the death of Jesus. Aslan to then dig into the great “what-ifs” of Jesus’s days and nights.įor that is really all there is when it comes to the historical record. It’s the pre-work required to prepare the reader, allowing Mr. This work is deftly done and gives the reader a wider context to the times and places Jesus lived and worked. The book begins with an exploration of the social, economic, and political situation of Jerusalem and the surrounding cities and villages. In doing so, he prepares the reader for the way divinity is stripped away from the titular character. In the very beginning he specifcally sets aside the idea of Jesus as the Christ, telling us that he will instead chose to focus on Jesus, the man from Nazareth. Aslan, a title that would have been used while he lived. ![]() The term “the Christ” was appended to Jesus’s posthumously, and was not, according to Mr. ![]() Notice how I did not use Jesus Christ a moment ago. This book is presented in relatively short chapters, each chapter tackling a small part of the large story of Jesus. Alsan holds an MFA from the famed Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. ![]() This should not come as a surprise given the fact that Mr. Resa Aslan’s new book, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth is, at times, a page-turner. ![]()
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