My apologies for the late night recording of my critiques. I think the tiredness and frustration with such poor scholarship getting hyped shows through in the final minutes of the video blog. It certainly appears that Reza's personal story of an Iranian American muslim turned evangelical Christian and then turned muslim again has warranted the hype around this book more than anything new or substantive in his portrait of Jesus.
After the Fox News interview brought first class media hype to a religion scholar's book about Jesus, Reza Aslan's 'Zealot' hit number one on Amazon's book sales. I found his methodology for creating the Jesus of history to have fundamental flaws. So I've explained the top 10 historical mistakes Reza Aslan makes in his case for making Jesus a political revolutionary. Check out the video on YouTube: Reza Aslan Zealot book review by Bible scholar Paul Penley. My apologies for the late night recording of my critiques. I think the tiredness and frustration with such poor scholarship getting hyped shows through in the final minutes of the video blog. It certainly appears that Reza's personal story of an Iranian American muslim turned evangelical Christian and then turned muslim again has warranted the hype around this book more than anything new or substantive in his portrait of Jesus.
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Lean
1/11/2021 12:07:36 pm
I looked into this book cuz a Jewish lady im taking care of has stage 4 cancer and is seeking for the truth and is reading this book..I think what you are saying makes more sense than what Reza Aslan is claiming.. I would like to point her to Messiah Yeshua according to scriptures not what according to Reza Aslan.
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