Review of “Zealot” – Conclusion and Summary

This is the conclusion and summary to my review of Zealot by Reza Aslan. If you don’t want to read through the more in-depth installments, then this post will summarize it for you.

One of the main problems with Aslan’s book is that there’s really nothing new in it. There’s no new scholarship, no real citations, and no strong analytical thinking. It is simply Aslan’s dramatic retelling of what other non-Christians writers have already claimed about Jesus and the early New Testament Church. The...