Reza aslan zealot review5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Aslan repeats the old but unverifiable claim that forgery was not considered dishonest in antiquity he goes further still in arguing that the evangelists had no intention of imposing upon their readers. Even if this were demonstrable, the inference that they are forgeries would be unwarranted unless we knew that the authors themselves had attached false names to them. In fact we would know nothing if it were true, as he asseverates, that none of our Gospels was written by the man whose name it bears (p. The first sentence in Reza Aslan’s The Zealot declares it a miracle that we know anything of the life of Jesus. ![]() These books have little in common but their failure to offer a satisfactory antidote to honest bibliolatry. Reviewed by Mark Edwards (Faculty of Theology and Christ Church, University of Oxford) New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. Christo-Fiction: The Ruins of Athens and Jerusalem. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. ![]()
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