Jesus as jihadist …

… Book review: ‘Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth’ by Reza Aslan - The Washington Post.

Unfortunately, there isn’t much new here other than Aslan’s slick writing and cinematic sensibilities. In a now-notoriousFox News interview that propelled the book toward the top of the bestseller lists, Lauren Green questioned whether a Muslim should be writing about Christianity’s founder. But the real problem is that Aslan, like thousands of “historical Jesus” experts before him, refuses to say “I don’t know” with anything near the frequency required for the task. He, too, purports to be an intrepid archaeologist for historical truth, excavating the “real” Jesus out of the “propagandistic legend” that has grown up around him. But he, too, remakes Jesus in his own image.