Reza Aslan in Zealot zei 't bv. onlangs als volgt:

'It is a miracle that we know anything at all about a man called Yehoshua of Natseret: an itinerant preacher supposedly wandering from village to village clamouring about the nearing end of the world, with bands of ragged followers trailing behind him? A common sight in Yehoshua's time ~ so common, in fact that it even had become a kind of caricature among the Roman elite? In a farcical passage about just such a figure, the Greek philosopher Celsus imagines a Jewish holy man roaming the Galilean countryside, and shouting to no one in particular: "I am God, or the servant of God, or a divine spirit. But I am coming, for the world is already in the throes of destruction. And you will soon see me coming with the power of heaven!"

The first century was an era of apocalyptic expectation especially among the Jews of Palestine, the Roman designation for the rather vast tract of land encompassing more or less modern-day Israel/Palestine as well as large parts of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Levanon?

Countless prophets, preachers, and messiahs tramped through the Holy Land(s) delivering (their) messages of God's imminent justice & 'judgment'! Many of these so-called 'false messiahs' we even know by name. A few are even mentioned in the new testament books.

The prophet Theudas, according to the book of Acts, had 400 disciples before Rome captured him and cut off his busybodied head; and a mysterious charismatic figure known as "the Aegyptian" raised an army of followers in the desert, nearly all of whom were massacred by Roman troops! In 4 BCE, the year in which most scholars believe now Yeshua of Natseret was born, a poor shepherd named Athron-ges put a diadem on his head and crowned himself "King of the Jews"; he & his followers were brutally cut down by a legion of soldiers.'

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