![]() Real scholars know the masters when they see them. ![]() Howard Marshall doesn’t need to insist on his scholarly credibility in the field of New Testament studies. To take but two examples: Robert Taft doesn’t need to inform us that he is the world’s foremost Byzantine lituriologist, and I. After all, real scholars don’t need to engage in such self-promotion. Granted that he was on the defensive, I did think that such vigorous insistence on his expert credentials was a bit much. ![]() Aslan insisted over and over again that he was “a scholar of religion with four degrees, including one in the New Testament, fluency in Biblical Greek”, and “an expert with a Ph.D in the history of religions”. The interview to which I refer is the one given on Fox Network’s online programme “Spirited Debate”, in which Lauren Green interviewed him about his book (or perhaps I should say “interrogated him”, since she came on so aggressively that one wondered if she wasn’t taking his erroneous teaching somewhat personally). ![]() Aslan, as one might guess by his name, is a Muslim by faith, and, as he repeatedly reminds us in an interview, a scholar and professor by trade. When I turned recently to my window on the world (aka “Facebook”), I discovered that the Next Big Noise in the cultural world of the west is a book recently written by Reza Aslan entitled, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. ![]()
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