Un-baptizing the “Zealot”

Aslan’s book has the Gospel writers motivated by a “frantic attempt to reduce John’s significance, to make him inferior to Jesus.” The reality instead, according to Aslan, was that Jesus was a follower of John the Baptist and that he pushed John aside and set out to “echo” John’s ministry and to “mimic” what had made John successful (89).

The problem with this theory is that Jesus would have been the most unlike follower in… Continue reading →