After all, how many spellbinding storytellers lack proper grammar? The misguided idea of a secretive Jesus figures importantly in Aslan's overall argument. Mark certainly features rough Greek, but appreciation for Mark's remarkable literary artistry stands as one of the most important scholarly findings of the past few decades. Aslan rejects that view on the grounds that Mark's author lacked literary skill. For example, Aslan notes that many interpreters credit the author of Mark with inventing the messianic secret as a literary device.
A flood of controversy has surfaced around California professor Reza Aslan. Most scholars will find these claims just silly. Book Review: Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan. He also claims that Jesus used coded language to promote his vision of the Kingdom of God for similar reasons. We call this phenomenon the "messianic secret." Aslan claims that Jesus himself veiled his messianic identity in order to avoid detection by the authorities. Readers of the Gospels know that Jesus often silences those who would proclaim his messianic identity.
The result is a thought-provoking, elegantly written biography with the pulse of a fast-paced novel: a singularly brilliant portrait of a man, a time, and the birth of a religion. Two of Aslan's glitches, however, bear directly upon his argument. Zealot questions what we thought we knew about Jesus of Nazaretheven as it affirms the radical and transformative nature of his life and mission.
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