Zealot. The Earthly Path of Jesus of Nazareth
Author: Реза Аслан
Printhouse: Azbuka
Series: Historical Interest
Age restrictions: 16+
Year of publication: 2023
ISBN: 9785389242326
Number of pages: 352
Size: 220x150x25 mm
Cover type: hard
Weight: 548 g
ID: 1604026
"This book attempts to restore, as much as possible, the personality of the historical Jesus, as he was before Christianity: the one who walked the lands of Galilee two thousand years ago, gathering followers for the establishment of the Kingdom of God, and after entering Jerusalem and attacking the temple, was arrested and executed by the Romans for inciting rebellion.
Fortunately, writing a biography of Jesus of Nazareth is somewhat different from writing a biography, for example, of Napoleon Bonaparte. The task resembles assembling a large puzzle with only a few pieces: the researcher has no choice but to fill in the missing parts based on their most successful and reasoned guesses about what the overall picture should look like. The great Christian theologian Rudolf Bultmann liked to say that the search for the historical Jesus is ultimately an inner spiritual quest.
Indeed, if we place the figure of Jesus in the social, religious, and political context of the era in which he lived (which was a time of a slowly brewing rebellion against Rome that was destined to forever change the faith and cultic practice of Judaism), his biography, in a certain sense, writes itself.
The Jesus that emerges in this process may not be quite what we expected to see; it definitely will not be the Jesus that most contemporary Christians know. But ultimately, this is the only Jesus that we can arrive at using historical methods.
Everything else remains a matter of faith".