{"id":9938,"date":"2018-01-10T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-07-10T14:32:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T18:32:24","slug":"review-zealot-the-life-and-times-of-jesus-of-nazareth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2018\/01\/10\/review-zealot-the-life-and-times-of-jesus-of-nazareth\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/20829562\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20829562.jpg?ssl=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/20829562\">Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/14210\">Reza Aslan<\/a><br \/>\n      My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/2241363085\">3 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      This, I think, explains the environment where I live: A nurse asked me about the book when I had just started it. I explained that it was a secular look at Jesus. She looked confused and asked what secular means. I described it as non-religious which made her look concerned. She shared that she and her husband are reading the Bible together, but it is very slow going because it is hard to read.<\/p>\n<p>This does a good job of setting the environment and circumstances of the time and place where Jesus operated. It continues a bit further along the early Christian church. It explains how and why there was the first split.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/2241363085\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan My rating: 3 of 5 stars This, I think, explains the environment where I live: A nurse asked me about the book when I had just started it. I explained that it was a secular look at Jesus. She looked confused and asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":10093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federate","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20829562.jpg?fit=98%2C151&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-2Ai","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}