Did Nasr Abu Zayd deny timelessness of Quran?

غیرتنا لأحبار الروم أشد من غيرتنا لكتاب ربنا

Dr Adnan Ibrahim criticizes modernist perspective of Quran as a mere historical text.

Historically Mutazilah rationalists also denied pre eternity of Quran which seemed to devalue Quran according to Sunni Hanbali orthodoxy.