This is a short resource page for anyone who wants to do further reading on Zealot, the scholarship Reza Aslan drew from to craft his narrative, and the common answers to many of the objections he raises.
See my response to Zealot here.
ARTICLES & PAPERS
An NY Times articles on the “Jesus Wars”
Another response to Zealot, this one five times more concise and ten times smarter than mine: https://www.biola.edu/blogs/good-book-blog/2013/a-response-to-zealot-by-reza-aslan
Was Jesus a disciple of John the Baptist? Does that mean the church altered the gospels to make Jesus look better than the Baptist? https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/eq/disciple_badke.pdf
” 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.” What Jesus Wasn’t: A Zealot, Jewish Review of Books
WEBSITES
BOOKS
Several of these are books on New Testament reliability and the historical Jesus, thanks to Alisa Childers for her book recommendation page
The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus, Gary Habermas & Michael Licona
The Historical Jesus of the Gospels, Greg Keener
The New Testament Documents- Are They Reliable? F.F. Bruce
Jesus Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus, Michael J. Wilkins & J.P. Moreland
Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels, Craig Evans
Was Christ Born at Bethlehem? A Study on the Credibility of St.Luke, Sir William Mitchell Ramsay
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