Aslan is a very colorful writer; he has some very powerful passages that help to bring the world of that time to life.

My biggest issue is that he very much has an agenda when writing this book. I saw a piece of the Fox News interview; I wish someone had asked him why it appears that his criteria for the validity off a Bible passage is how well it supports his thesis. If the passage fits, it is accepted without question; if it doesn't fit, it obviously was added later as part of the early church building a mythology around Jesus (or something like that).

I think there is useful material in this book; just temper it with someone like N. T. Wright.