Boy, how to begin this review? On my maternal side I come from a family steeped in Christianity. I have traced my family tree on that side back to the 1500s, and the absolute common thread running from my earliest traceable ancestor to my grandmother who just passed away a month before I starte...
There's a difference between Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus Christ, despite what you might've thought. One is a Son of Man, a historical figure, a man who lived and died in the first-century Palestine, the other, a Son of God, is a creation of his followers and a central figure of a religion called Chr...
An interesting book, though I was not necessarily convinced by all his arguments. (I was amused at how nasty he was to Paul.) The chief question I was left with after reading it was why there was so much zealotry, apocalypticism, and messianism floating around the holy land in the centuries befor...
This was an excellent read. It was more of a history of 1st century Palestine than a biography about Jesus but the research was impeccable and the book as a whole was enlightening. I almost dropped a star because I think the central premise is ridiculous - that Jesus sought to overthrow the curren...
Like many books about Jesus (or, for that matter, HIV), the reviews are reasonably shrill, accusatory, and polarized. Aslan does a good job of contextualizing the period in which Jesus preached and making is accessible to the non-technical reader. I can't evaluate his contention that Jesus's activit...
Back in 1993 a group called the Jesus Seminar published a version of the gospels in which they color coded the sayings of Jesus based on the likelihood of the quotations being accurate, red for the most likely, then pink, grey, and finally black for unlikely. The seminar seemed to believe that when ...
Update.Someone complained that this review does not contain enough stuff about the book.So I would break it down to two parts.Part I would be about the book, and Part 2 about the writer's interview on Fox and other stuff.Part I - the bookThis book is boring. If you are looking for really contradicti...
If (with the emphasis on if) there were nothing else to say about this book, I would call it interesting. The life of Jesus is needless to say something of a fascination in our current culture and lifetime (and probably will continue ages into our future) and has irrevocably shaped thousands of coun...
8/20/13 ** Fascinating! It will change the way you hear the traditional Gospel stories. As good non-fiction does, it reads like a great narrative story.
"Hello there! Jesus of Nazareth.....Right?" "Um, yes that's me, and you are?""Stephanie, nice to meet you.""How did you know my name?" Said Jesus "And what the devil is that contraption you're sitting on?""This is a time machine, a lawn mower/laptop, freak lightning strike.....and ta da! Time machi...
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