Zealot
I have just finished reading a book called "Zealot," by Reza Aslan. Mortuary mask of Jesus, drawn by my uncle Francisco Mangabeira Albernaz Dr. Aslan is associate professor of Creative Writing at the University of California Riverside. He was born in Iran and is a Muslim. And his book is about Jesus. It is the result of twenty years of research on the New Testament and the beginnings of Christianity conducted at the University of Santa Clara, Harvard University and University of California Santa Barbara. In my book Em busca de Deus (In search of God) I wrote a chapter about Jesus. It caused me a good deal of satisfaction to see that Aslan's opinions are the same as mine. But there is no question that his research was much more thorough than mine. And his book is definitely worth reading. I do not regard Jesus as God, I regard him as a man. An extraordinary man for whom I have an enormous admiration. As a God, his intrinsic qualities can be taken for granted. ...