{"id":37801,"date":"2013-09-17T09:26:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T16:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=37801"},"modified":"2013-09-17T09:26:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T16:26:58","slug":"zealot-the-life-and-times-of-jesus-of-nazareth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/09\/17\/zealot-the-life-and-times-of-jesus-of-nazareth\/","title":{"rendered":"Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130917Zealot\/2013_09_17_zealot.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/zealot.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Wikipedia defines the acronym, WWJD as a phrase that \u201cbecame popular in the United States in the 1990s \u2026 as a personal motto for adherents of Evangelical Christianity who used \u2026[it] as a reminder of their belief in a moral imperative to act in a manner that would demonstrate the love of Jesus through the actions of the adherents.\u201d Well, how do we know \u201cwhat Jesus would do\u201d in a particular situation? <\/p>\n<p>The historical Jesus Christ is not one whose actual background, upbringing, or actions necessarily enter into religious discourses in church or during mass. Rather it\u2019s stories of what writers of the gospels claim Jesus did or was, that is invoked \u2013 stories that have little to do with reality it turns out. <\/p>\n<p>Much historical research has been done on the man who actually lived by the name of Jesus of Nazareth about 2000 years ago, and was crucified like many others were for challenging the authority of the Roman Empire. <\/p>\n<p>A new and controversial book by religious scholar Reza Aslan called simply, Zealot, has topped the best seller list, in no small part because of a Fox News interview that, embarrassingly for Fox, questioned Aslan\u2019s scholarship based on his Islamic faith. But the book itself merits the fame Fox has lent it \u2013 Reza Aslan distills decades of historical study into the historical Jesus Christ to reveal a portrait of a revolutionary teacher who challenged the brutality and oppression of Rome, was killed for it, and, posthumously spawned one of the world\u2019s most important organized religions. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Reza Aslan is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside, a Research Associate at the University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy, and a contributing editor for The Daily Beast. He is best known for his earlier bestseller, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam. I spoke with him recently in studio about his latest best-seller, Zealot, the Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia defines the acronym, WWJD as a phrase that \u201cbecame popular in the United States in the 1990s \u2026 as a personal motto for adherents of Evangelical Christianity who used \u2026[it] as a reminder of their belief in a moral imperative to act in a manner that would demonstrate the love of Jesus through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program","category-featured-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37807,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37801\/revisions\/37807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}