Review of “Zealot” – First Installment

There’s been a lot on the news lately about a new book called Zealot, written by Reza Aslan. If you look at the Amazon.com reviews of this book, people either love it or hate it; it’s either the best thing to happen to the study of the “historical Jesus” or a complete fraud.

A lot of the opposition arises from the fact that Aslan is a Muslim. In the “Author’s Note” in the book he talks about how he grew up as a secular Muslim, “found Jesus” in high school, and then later converted back to Isla...