“Zealot” contradicts itself

Reza Aslan implies that the crucifixion was a story hatched by “illiterate peasants from the backwoods of Galilee.” (178). Then he questions why they hung around Jerusalem when they could have “fanned out across Galilee” with their story. The dead zealot wouldn’t have asked them to stay in Jerusalem. Could it perhaps have been the resurrected Jesus (Luke 24:49)?

Aslan likes to describe the disciples as anchored to Brother James in Jerusalem. And yet there… Continue reading →