Interpreting Jesus
Essays on the Gospels
Published on 16. April 2020
352 pages
978-0-281-08127-1 (ISBN)
Description
Interpreting Jesus brings together N. T. Wright's most important articles on Jesus and the Gospels over almost four decades.
Here is a rich feast for all serious students of the Bible. Each essay will amply reward those looking for detailed, incisive and exquisitely nuanced exegesis, resulting in a clearer, deeper and more informed appreciation of the recent advances in Jesus studies, and their significance for theology today.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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ISBN-13
978-0-281-08127-1 (9780281081271)
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04/2020
SPCK Publishing
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Person
N. T. Wright is Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews and Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. His recent books include Paul and the Faithfulness of God, God in Public, The Day the Revolution Began, and Paul: A biography (all published by SPCK).
Content
- Intro
- 1 Towards a Third 'Quest'? Jesus Then and Now
- 2 Jesus, Israel and the Cross
- 3 'Constraints' and the Jesus of History
- 4 Taking the Text with Her Pleasure: A Post-Post-Modernist Response to J. Dominic Crossan, The Historical Jesus
- 5 Jesus
- 6 Five Gospels but No Gospel: Jesus and the Seminar
- 7 Resurrection in Q?
- 8 Introduction to the Second Edition of B. F. Meyer, The Aims of Jesus
- 9 Kingdom Come: The Public Meaning of the Gospels
- 10 Whence and Whither Historical Jesus Studies in the Life of the Church?
- 11 The Evangelists' Use of the Old Testament as an Implicit Overarching Narrative
- 12 John, Jesus and 'The Ruler of This World': Demonic Politics in the Fourth Gospel?
- 13 Pictures, Stories and the Cross: Where Do the Echoes Lead?
- 14 Son of Man - Lord of the Temple? Gospel Echoes of Psalm 8 and the Ongoing Christological Challenge
- 15 Son of God and Christian Origins
- 16 History, Eschatology, and New Creation in the Fourth Gospel: Early Christian Perspectives on God's Action in Jesus, with Special Reference to the Prologue of John
- 17 Son of Man and New Creation: The Biblical Roots of Trinitarian Theology
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Search items for Ancient Sources
- Search items for Modern Authors
