Being an American, I hear that people are doing things because they are followers of Jesus Christ. I grew up Catholic, and I didn't really learn anything about Jesus in my Sunday school, first communion, confirmation, or Jesuit college theology class.

I wanted to know more about how the Jesus of Nazareth differs from Jesus Christ. Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) uses a modern historical approach in Zealot to dissect the primary sources that report on Jesus of Nazareth to cut through Paul's Roman Christian mythology.

Aslan's claim in the book is that the Jesus of history just as compelling if not more compelling than Jesus of Paul's myth.

Zealot: www.goodreads.com/book/show/17568801-zealot