![]() Jesus opposed not only the Roman overlords, Mr. He was loyal to the law of Moses as he interpreted it. ![]() Jesus never intended to found a church, much less a new religion. Like John, Jesus preached the imminent arrival of the kingdom of God, which would be an earthly, political state ruled by God or his anointed, a messiah. He was a disciple of John the Baptist until John’s arrest. Aslan, Jesus was born in Nazareth and grew up a poor laborer. ![]() Aslan’s thesis controversial, at least among scholars of early Christianity.Īccording to Mr. This should be no more controversial than a Christian scholar’s writing a book about Islam or Muhammad. Some conservatives seem offended by merely the idea that a Muslim scholar would write a book about Jesus. Aslan’s book has been greeted with unwarranted controversy. In his book “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth,” Reza Aslan follows this long tradition, settling on the hypothesis, also around for hundreds of years, that Jesus was a Jewish zealot, a rebel against Rome and the Romans’ local agents. For at least two centuries, scholars and popular writers have mined the Christian Gospels to “look behind” them, to create a portrait of Jesus, using purely modern methods: the historical Jesus as opposed to the Christ of faith. ![]() People have constructed many different Jesuses. ![]()
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