Zealot

El zelote es una biografía fascinante, provocativa y meticulosamente documentada que trae una nueva perspectiva sobre la naturaleza, la vida y la misión de Jesús de Nazaret. Una visión nueva y polémica sobre el hombre que se esconde detrás del mito de Jesús. Ha causado enormes controversias en Estados Unidos desde su publicación. Hace dos mil años, un predicador itinerante recorrió Galilea, reclutando seguidores para establecer un «reino de Dios». El movimiento revolucionario que creó representaba una amenaza tan importante para el orden establecido que ese hombre fue capturado, torturado y ejecutado como un criminal. Décadas después, sus seguidores lo llamaban Dios. Desentrañando siglos de mitos, el historiador Reza Aslan ofrece una nueva luz sobre uno de los personajes más influyentes y enigmáticos de la historia, examinando a Jesús a través de la lente de la tumultuosa época en la que vivió. Confrontando al Jesús de los Evangelios con las fuentes históricas, Aslan describe a un hombre lleno de convicciones y pasión, y a la vez plagado de contradicciones.

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#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 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. 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. 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.