Reza Aslan: Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus
Date: Thursday, February 13, 2014 Time: 7:00 PM
2/13/2014 5:00:00 PM2/13/2014 5:00:00 PMAmerica/Los_AngelesReza Aslan: Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus At Elmhurst College, Hammerschmidt Memorial Chapel190 Prospect Avenue, Elmhurst, IL 60126Website: https://elmhurstcollegelectures.tix.com/Event.aspx?EventCode=623016FalseMM/DD/YYYY
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Jesus is not just an object of faith; he also was a figure in history. In his New York Times best-selling study, Zealot, Reza Aslan draws imaginatively on centuries of scholarship to present a portrait of Jesus as an unlettered Jewish peasant who emerged as a political revolutionary, a rebel against Rome and its representatives in Palestine, including the Temple priests. Dale Martin, a scholar of religion at Yale, calls the book "a serious presentation of one plausible portrait" of the person at the center of the New Testament story.