![]() ![]() Retrieving the nineteenth-century theory of F. But he appears unaware of Bauer-Danker’s standard dictionary of New Testament Greek, used by scholars everywhere. The latter comment in puzzling in any case given that Mark’s Gospel contains three predictions of Jesus’s resurrection (in chapters 8, 9 and 10) and a repeated promise of a rendezvous in Galilee between the risen Jesus and his disciples (14:28 16:7).Īslan can read some Greek and tells readers that he can work out the rest with the help of dictionaries. If Aslan had read that commentary, he could hardly have described Mark as simply ‘uninterested’ in the resurrection of Jesus (p. Currently the outstanding commentary on Mark’s Gospel is by Joel Markus. If he had studied Raymond Brown’s classic and carefully argued The Birth of the Messiah, he might have been saved from facile judgments about the infancy narratives in Matthew and Luke. While he has read widely in biblical scholarship, his book is riddled with significant and damaging gaps. But has it any real worth? What is the scholarly status of its author?Īfter securing a doctorate in the sociology of religions and a Master of Fine Arts in fiction, Aslan is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. ![]() The short chapters, uncluttered by footnotes, make the book a quick and easy read. ![]() Reza Aslan writes in a vivid, imaginative and popular style. ![]()
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