With the paperback release of Reza Aslan’s Zealot, his tired and erroneous claims about Jesus are receiving renewed and regrettable attention. OnFaith just ran a gushing profile, trotting out the scholar’s wheezy notions of Jesus’ messianic proclamation and its first-century reception.
“Everything [Jesus] said, he said in the context of Judaism,” says Aslan. “The Christian interpretation of his words and actions weren’t historical.”
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