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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | The Westbourne Press (Aslan, Reza) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
When you are told that the focus of a book is the "historical Jesus", it´s easy to assume that the author is interested in substantiating Jesus as a historical personage so as to bolster the claims of religious Christianity. 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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