aryanjoy 's review for:

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan

3.0

challenging informative slow-paced

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I would have loved to read this book with either more explanation or less detail about all the players on the scene in Jesus’ time… like a dummy version of this book for those of us not as familiar with Roman and Biblical history.  But ultimately I’m glad I read this book and did takeaway some really key themes on how Jesus was transformed from basically a Jewish nationalist who created a movement challenging Roman occupation to Jesus the Christ that we see in the Bible today.