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Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history's most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus through the lens of the tumultuous era in which he lived: first-century Palestine, an age awash in apocalyptic fervor. Scores of Jewish prophets, preachers, and would-be messiahs wandered through the Holy Land, bearing messages from God. This was the age of zealotry--a fervent nationalism that made resistance...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"Millions of readers have thrilled to bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, page-turning works of nonfiction that have changed the way we read history. Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor details the events leading up to the murder of the most influential man in history: Jesus of Nazareth. Nearly two thousand years after this beloved and controversial young revolutionary was brutally...
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Hinges of history volume 3
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English
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Describes what life was like during Jesus's life, focusing on the oppressive Roman political presence, the pervasive Greek cultural influence, and the widely varied social and religious context of Judaism.
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Harcourt, Brace and company
Pub. Date
[c1923]
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English
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One of the most beautiful books I ever read about the life of Jesus Christ. Not a theological work, which the author freely admits, but one that brings the life of Christ vividly before your eyes. The great change that He brought, how He preached and attracted the hearts of thousands comes to an emotional height with the crucifixion and His great sacrifice. It also explains why the Jews were forced into diaspora by the Romans: because God wills it...
8) Thirst
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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In her twenty-eighth novel in as many years, best-selling Belgian novelist and international literary superstar Am�elie Nothomb takes on a story for the ages: the life of Jesus. In a first-person voice as droll and irreverent as it is wise, Nothomb narrates Jesus's final days, from his trial to his crucifixion to the resurrection. Amid asides about his relationships with his mother and Judas, his love for Mary Magdalene, and his many miracles,...
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FaithWords
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Discusses the personality of Jesus Christ and how it affected how his contemporaries viewed him as well as how his actions in the Bible should be interpreted, arguing that his humanity, not his divinity, helps better understand his life.
10) The blood Gospel
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Order of the Sanguines volume 1
Pub. Date
c2013
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English
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After a shocking discovery in Masada, Israel, Sergeant Jordan Stone, Father Rhun Korza and Dr. Erin Granger, racing against time to recover a book written by Christ's own hand, must contend with a force of ancient evil with impossible ambitions and a secret sect within the Vatican called the Sanguines. City of screams: Sergeant Jordan Stone and his forensics team attempt to save a child and defeat what lurks beneath the ruins.
11) Quarantine
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"A re-imagining of the forty days Christ spent in the wilderness being tempted by the devil." "Judea, about two thousand years ago: There were five of them - not in a group, but strung out along the road where earlier that morning the caravan of uncles had passed by. Three men, a woman, and, too far behind for anyone to guess its gender, a fifth. And this fifth was barefoot, and without a staff. No water-skin, or bag of clothes. No food. A slow, painstaking...
12) The bronze bow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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When the Romans brutally kill Daniel bar Jamin's father, the young Palestinian searches for a leader to drive them out, but comes to realize that love may be a more powerful weapon than hate.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Jay Parini turns the powerful narrative skill he's wielded over the course of a four-decade career to a figure who's dominated our collective imagination and cultural iconography for over twenty centuries. The main trend of modern theology has hinged on the notion of ""demythologizing"" Jesus. Parini's book seeks to re-mythologize him, considering the story in all its mythical radiance, taking Jesus as the human face of God. It asks: What's so moving...
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This sacred text of the Later Day Saint movement was first published by Joseph Smith in 1830. "The Book of Mormon" was purportedly the result of divine revelation. According to the legend, Joseph Smith was visited by the Angel Moroni, who revealed to him the location of a secret collection of ancient writings, engraved on golden plates by ancient prophets. These plates told of a time six hundred years before the birth of Christ when God brought a...
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Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
c1997
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English
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The Complete Jesus is the first compilation of the sayings and teachings attributed to Jesus of Nazareth from all ancient documents through the fifth century, including the New Testament, the Christian Gnostic writings, and the New Testament Apocrypha.
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HarperOne
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Large numbers of atheists, humanists, and conspiracy theorists are raising one of the most pressing questions in the history of religion: "Did Jesus exist at all?" Was he invented out of whole cloth for nefarious purposes by those seeking to control the masses? Or was Jesus such a shadowy figure -- far removed from any credible historical evidence -- that he bears no meaningful resemblance to the person described in the Bible? In Did Jesus Exist?...
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