I really like Reza Aslan writing. I was excited for this this book. I have read a lot about the Historical Jesus and taking the gospels narratives out of the picture to figure out what the real human aka Historical Jesus would be. I have read N.T. Wright, Borg and Pagel write about Historical Jesus, so not the information is "new." But Aslan does package very well the history of Rome, Judaism and the culture of the time of Jesus to explain more than likely what happened during that time based on other historical documents. His writing style is simple, straight forward and tells it how it is. You can tell he as researched a lot. Once you take away the gospels, which are not historically accurate at all, you are able to see what Jesus from Nazareth was like and why he was killed on a cross for Sedition and why Rome did what they did and with everyone who claimed that were the Jewish messiah.

If you have done any study on anything close to Historical Jesus, most of the information will not be new, but Aslan lays it out there with all the possible scenarios for everything in the Gospels that claims to be plausible and yet would not have happened and why things are written the way there are in the Gospels, because the Gospels are just propaganda in the end to reach certain people about this following Jesus that was able to be kept alive even after his death.