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I like the concept of this book better than the execution. While Reza Aslan points out historical inaccuracies in The New Testament, his manner is so tedious that he overshadows the more interesting aspects of the book. His basic tenant is that Jesus was no different than many other Jewish figures around the same time. Some called themselves the Messiah and led rebellion against the Romans, most of them more successful than Jesus. However, Jesus becomes the basis of Christianity. From a historic
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Aslan provides interesting historical background for first century BCE/CE Roman Palestine and does explain something of the historical Jesus. His writing revealed to me not how little I know of the New Testament but how little I have ever compared one set of writings with another. Everything in the NT cannot be "true" since some of it contradicts itself. Not that the Catholic Church of my youth ever focused on bible readings.
I found Aslan's writing annoying. Much is repetitious. There is too mu ...more
I found Aslan's writing annoying. Much is repetitious. There is too mu ...more
