![]() ![]() ![]() “The gospels are not, nor were they ever meant to be, a historical documentation of Jesus’s life,” Aslan writes. What Aslan is claiming is the existence of a virtually unbridgeable gap between the stories the Gospels tell about Jesus and the actual events of history. Clearly, the New Testament Gospels are real documents that emerged at particular times in ancient history. ![]() The result of this discovery-at least in Aslan’s estimation-is that the New Testament Gospels should be treated as texts that convey something other than “history.” Aslan is not, of course, suggesting that the Gospels themselves are somehow non-historical documents. “The more I probed the Bible,” Reza Aslan declares in the introduction to his bestseller Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, “the more distance I discovered between the Jesus of the gospels and the Jesus of history” (xix). ![]()
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