Daily Study. To the Israelites, as well as to Jesus’s community in first-century Palestine, “neighbor” meant one’s fellow Jews. This unsubtle suggestion that Evangelical Christians’ discipleship and knowledge of Jesus is inferior to his own makes it rather harder to sympathize with him as an entirely innocent victim of unprovoked, ad hominem challenges regarding his book’s possibly Islamist agenda. Books by Aslan and others and reviews such as provided by Dr. Nadler certainly have given me a variety of views to consider. . How does that come in line with the words in Scripture to turn the other cheek? It was (and still is) too fantastical, all that cosmic skull-duggery whereby a father/god allows or has men kill the son/god.
Howard Bess is a retired American Baptist minister, who lives in Palmer, Alaska. The high priest’s Passover garments were held by Rome, distributed by Rome, and returned to Rome for safekeeping. He even used his sword to cut off the ear of one of the centurions who came to the garden to arrest Jesus. This means that my only interest in the Bible is in the development of ideas that are evident in it—with purported historical information in the Bible of no interest to me whatsoever. The Zealots were a "fourth sect", founded by Judas of Galilee (also called Judas of Gamala) in the year 6 CE against the Census of Quirinius, shortly after the Roman Empire declared what had most recently been the tetrarchy of Herod Archelaus to be a Roman province, and that they "agree in all other things with the Pharisaic notions; but they have an inviolable attachment to liberty, and say that God is to be their only Ruler and Lord." Two modern translations (the Jewish New Testament and Alternate Literal Translation) render it as 'a zealot'. And so on. He was actually closer to the Pharisees than any of the other groups. (See, inter alia, Exodus 22:20 & 23:9, Leviticus 19:34 and Deuteronomy 24:14.). But one needn’t struggle too hard to discern Aslan’s selection process: Whichever verses fit the central argument of his book, he accepts as historically valid. Jesus was a violent man, he said he came to bring the sword into the world, not peace, he attacked the money-changers in the Temple courtyard who were there to facilitate, after all, the purchases of offerings by pilgrims. As you state in your closing paragraph, Jesus was not a man of violence, as was Mohammed. Could we expect anything less, from either side? Second, while he may refer to a “broad consensus” of scholars and “what is widely acknowledged” to lend credence to his thesis, the undeniable fact is that his “Jesus the Zealot” is in conflict with the overwhelming majority of biblical scholars. He thus demonstrates his complete ignorance of Josephus, the Targums, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the works of Geza Vermes and Hyam Maccoby, inter alia. Aslan sees the Temple episode, not as a cleansing of the Temple, but the beginning of the overthrow of the entire Temple system. "If so, then why is one of Jesus' followers called Simon the Zealot? All Rights Reserved.
Jesus’s titulus reads KING OF THE JEWS. In Jesus’ mind his role was to begin a token resistance to Roman occupation and the Almighty would return to smite the enemy as He did in the legends of old. The only novelty in Aslan’s book is his relentlessly reductionist, simplistic, one-sided and often harshly polemical portrayal of Jesus as a radical, zealously nationalistic, and purely political figure. The sad thing is that public life becomes viewed as a transgression by real scholars, and so along with their criticism of popular writers they relinquish their own responsibility, and possibility, to become an engaging public voice.
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