Thursday, August 1, 2013

Reza Aslan's Ideas Are Hardly New

S.G.F. Brandon was a prominent exponent of the Zealot theory in the 1960s:

"His most celebrated position is the controversial one, that a political Jesus was a revolutionary figure, influenced in that by the Zealots; this he argued in the 1967 book Jesus and the Zealots: A Study of the Political Factor in Primitive Christianity."