Instead, the author defines Jesus as “a man of profound contradictions, one day preaching a message of racial exclusion…the next, of benevolent universalism…sometimes calling for unconditional peace…sometimes promoting violence and conflict” (Aslan, 2013, p. At the same time, Aslan rejects the idea that Jesus and other Jews were revolutionaries who wanted to use power and violence to achieve their goals. Jesus is introduced as a zealot of God with a burning desire to use the power of God to fight against the occupation of the Romans and to eventually reach the Promised Land. Aslan describes this time as a period in which people promoted nationalist ideas in the most unpredictable ways using their passion, desire, and enthusiasm. In this book, he introduces a new perspective on human history by focusing on different religious stories connected with Jesus and the era of Christianity’s birth. Reza Aslan is an Iranian-American writer made famous by his book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.
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