LQ Podcast

#43 Reza Aslan

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

The religious scholar and historian Reza Aslan, best-selling author of No god but God, comes on the podcast to discuss his search for the historical Jesus, which is the subject of his new book, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.

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