What Jesus Wasn't: Zealot

Jewish Review of Books ^ | August 11, 2013 | By Allan Nadler

[BlackVeil]

Within an hour of its online debut, the number of viewers of Reza Aslan’s now notorious interview with Fox News’ Lauren Green had far exceeded the number of Israelites who crossed the Red Sea under the leadership of the father of all Jewish nationalist zealots, Moses. Aslan was being interviewed on the occasion of the appearance of his book that places Jesus of Nazareth at the top of a long list of subsequent, rabidly nationalist messianic Jewish zealots. ...

[BlackVeil]

A review of the controversy, and also Reza Aslan's book - very detailed.

[lonestar67]

Great article.

[DesertRhino]

Jesus was actually a Baptist.

[ApplegateRanch]

Thanks. It is a great review of what I already knew was a piece of crap pseudo scholarship, written by a Muslim supporting Muslim doctrines about Christianity.

This one is telling:

In this connection, alas, Aslan offers a most unflattering and skewed stereotype of Jesus as a typical Jew of his era, namely an intolerant ethnocentric nationalist prone to violence towards Gentiles and whose charity and love extend only to other Jews:

Pure, plain, unabashed projection of Muslim culture, beliefs and doctrines, stemming from the same "values" of the Arab clans in Mohammad's time, and indelibly inscribed in Islam to this day.