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In the internationally best-selling writer of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we realize as Jesus of Nazareth. Two-thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and wonder worker walked over the Galilee, gathering followers to determine what he called the "Kingdom of God". The revolutionary movements he launched was so intimidating to the founded order that he was captured, tortured, and performed as a state criminal. Within generations after his shameful death, his followers would call him God. Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history's most important and enigmatic personas by examining Jesus through the zoom lens of the tumultuous time in which he resided: first-century Palestine, an get older awash in apocalyptic fervor. Scores of Jewish prophets, preachers, and would-be messiahs wandered through the Holy Land, bearing emails from God. This was age zealotry - a fervent nationalism that made amount of resistance to the Roman profession a sacred duty incumbent on all Jews. And few statistics better exemplified this principle than the charismatic Galilean who defied both imperial government bodies and their allies in the Jewish religious hierarchy. Controlling the Jesus of the Gospels resistant to the historical sources, Aslan describes a guy filled with conviction and love, yet rife with contradiction; a guy of serenity who exhorted his followers to equip themselves with swords; an exorcist and faith healer who urged his disciples to keep his id a magic formula; and finally the seditious "King of the Jews" whose assurance of liberation from Rome travelled unfulfilled in his simple lifetime.
