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Zealot

The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
336 Seiten
Englisch
Penguin Random Houseerschienen am09.09.2014
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A lucid, intelligent page-turner (Los Angeles Times) that challenges long-held assumptions about Jesus, from the host of Believer
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Praise for Zealot
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Riveting . . . Aslan synthesizes Scripture and scholarship to create an original account. The New Yorker
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Fascinatingly and convincingly drawn . . . Aslan may come as close as one can to respecting those who revere Jesus as the peace-loving, turn-the-other-cheek, true son of God depicted in modern Christianity, even as he knocks down that image. The Seattle Times
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[Aslan s] literary talent is as essential to the effect of Zealot as are his scholarly and journalistic chops. . . . A vivid, persuasive portrait. Salon
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This tough-minded, deeply political book does full justice to the real Jesus, and honors him in the process. San Francisco Chronicle
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A special and revealing work, one that believer and skeptic alike will find surprising, engaging, and original. Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
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Compulsively readable . . . This superb work is highly recommended. Publishers Weekly (starred review)mehr
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Produkt

Klappentext#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A lucid, intelligent page-turner (Los Angeles Times) that challenges long-held assumptions about Jesus, from the host of Believer
ÿ
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.
ÿ
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.
ÿ
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.
ÿ
Praise for Zealot
ÿ
Riveting . . . Aslan synthesizes Scripture and scholarship to create an original account. The New Yorker
ÿ
Fascinatingly and convincingly drawn . . . Aslan may come as close as one can to respecting those who revere Jesus as the peace-loving, turn-the-other-cheek, true son of God depicted in modern Christianity, even as he knocks down that image. The Seattle Times
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[Aslan s] literary talent is as essential to the effect of Zealot as are his scholarly and journalistic chops. . . . A vivid, persuasive portrait. Salon
ÿ
This tough-minded, deeply political book does full justice to the real Jesus, and honors him in the process. San Francisco Chronicle
ÿ
A special and revealing work, one that believer and skeptic alike will find surprising, engaging, and original. Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
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Compulsively readable . . . This superb work is highly recommended. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
ZusammenfassungFrom the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating and meticulously researched biography of Jesus of Nazareth.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-8129-8148-3
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2014
Erscheinungsdatum09.09.2014
Seiten336 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht258 g
IllustrationenMAP, ILLUSTRATION
Artikel-Nr.29938042

Inhalt/Kritik

Leseprobe
Chapter One

A Hole in the Corner

Who killed Jonathan son of Ananus as he strode across the Temple Mount in the year 56 c.e.? No doubt there were many in Jerusalem who longed to slay the rapacious high priest, and more than a few who would have liked to wipe out the bloated Temple priesthood in its entirety. For what must never be forgotten when speaking of first-century Palestine is that this land-this hallowed land from which the spirit of God flowed to the rest of the world-was occupied territory. Legions of Roman troops were stationed throughout Judea. Some six hundred Roman soldiers resided atop the Temple Mount itself, within the high stone walls of the Antonia Fortress, which buttressed the northwest corner of the Temple wall. The unclean centurion in his red cape and polished cuirass who paraded through the Court of Gentiles, his hand hovering over the hilt of his sword, was a not so subtle reminder, if any were needed, of who really ruled this sacred place.

Roman dominion over Jerusalem began in 63 b.c.e., when Rome's master tactician, Pompey Magnus, entered the city with his conquering legions and laid siege to the Temple. By then, Jerusalem had long since passed its economic and cultural zenith. The Canaanite settlement that King David had recast into the seat of his kingdom, the city he had passed to his wayward son, Solomon, who built the first Temple to God-sacked and destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 b.c.e.-the city that had served as the religious, economic, and political capital of the Jewish nation for a thousand years, was, by the time Pompey strode through its gates, recognized less for its beauty and grandeur than for the religious fervor of its troublesome population.

Situated on the southern plateau of the shaggy Judean mountains, between the twin peaks of Mount Scopus and the Mount of Olives, and flanked by the Kidron Valley in the east and the steep, forebidding Valley of Gehenna in the south, Jerusalem, at the time of the Roman invasion, was home to a settled population of about a hundred thousand people. To the Romans, it was an inconsequential speck on the imperial map, a city the wordy statesman Cicero dismissed as "a hole in the corner." But to the Jews this was the navel of the world, the axis of the universe. There was no city more unique, more holy, more venerable in all the world than Jerusalem. The purple vineyards whose vines twisted and crawled across the level plains, the well-tilled fields and viridescent orchards bursting with almond and fig and olive trees, the green beds of papyrus floating lazily along the Jordan River-the Jews not only knew and deeply loved every feature of this consecrated land, they laid claim to all of it. Everything from the farmsteads of the Galilee to the low-lying hills of Samaria and the far outskirts of Idumea, where the Bible says the accursed cities of Sodom and Gomorrah once stood, was given by God to the Jews, though in fact the Jews ruled none of it, not even Jerusalem, where the true God was worshipped. The city that the Lord had clothed in splendor and glory and placed, as the prophet Ezekiel declared, "in the center of all nations"-the eternal seat of God's kingdom on earth-was, at the dawn of the first century c.e., just a minor province, and a vexing one at that, at the far corner of the mighty Roman Empire.

It is not that Jerusalem was unaccustomed to invasion and occupation. Despite its exalted status in the hearts of the Jews, the truth is that Jerusalem was little more than a trifle to be passed among a succession of kings and emperors who took turns plundering and despoiling the sacred city on their way to far grander ambitions. In 586 b.c.e. the Babylonians-masters of Mesopotamia-rampaged through Judea, razing both Jerusalem and its Temple to the ground. The Babylonians were conquered by the Persians, who allowed the Jews to return to their beloved city and rebuild their temple, not because they admired tmehr

Autor

Reza Aslan is an acclaimed writer and scholar of religions whose books include No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam and Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. 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. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three sons.