Zealot

From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating provocative and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth. Two thousand years ago an itinerant Jewish preacher from Galilee launched a revolutionary movement proclaiming the 'Kingdom of God' and threatened the established order of first-century Palestine. Defying both Imperial Rome and its collaborators in the Jewish religious hierarchy he was captured tortured and executed as a state criminal. Within decades his followers would call him the Son of God.

Sifting through centuries of mythmaking Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history's most influential and enigmatic figures by examining Jesus within the context of the times in which he lived: the age of zealotry an era awash in apocalyptic fervour when scores of Jewish prophets and would-be messiahs wandered the Holy Land bearing messages from God