Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 566 g
Reihe: New York Times Bestseller
The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 566 g
Reihe: New York Times Bestseller
ISBN: 978-1-908906-27-4
Verlag: The Westbourne Press
Reza Aslan did a masterful job of presenting the historical context for the rise of Islam, (No god but God is a widely translated bestseller and an acknowledged contribution to historiography.) He is a scholar of religions and an excellent writer who can take a sprawling topic and render it sensibly and persuasively.
His argument boils down to this: The Jews of the first century had been consumed by the passion of holy war, of jihad, against Roman occupation, and Jesus was only amongst the last in a long line of messiahs, healers, rebel leaders, and self-proclaimed "King[s] of the Jews" who were executed. (He never uses the phrase "holy war" or jihad, of course, but the parallels are astonishing and unmistakable.) Jesus as a figure doesn¿t even appear much in the first third of the book, because Aslan is busy constructing a truly impressive context for Jewish rebellion under the harsh rule of Rome, and for Jewish aristocratic and theological co-option by the Romans to the point of collaboration.
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Einsteiger/Laien