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The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
A bestselling and much-argued reconstruction of the historical Jesus, the Jewish revolutionary preacher standing behind the figure of Christian faith.
A historian’s portrait of Jesus of Nazareth as he would have appeared to his contemporaries: a Jewish peasant preacher in a Roman-occupied province seething with revolt. Aslan separates the man attested in first-century sources from the figure assembled by the church in the decades after the crucifixion, setting him against the politics, poverty and messianic fervour of his time. The reconstruction is contentious by design, and it became a bestseller and a public argument on publication.
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