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Interpreting Jesus: Essays on the Gospels
Interpreting Jesus brings together N. T. Wright's most important articles on Jesus and the Gospels over the last three 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.
240 pages, Hardcover
Published January 16, 2020
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N.T. Wright
460 books2,866 followersN. T. Wright is the former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England (2003-2010) and one of the world's leading Bible scholars. He is now serving as the chair of New Testament and Early Christianity at the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews. He has been featured on ABC News, Dateline NBC, The Colbert Report, and Fresh Air, and he has taught New Testament studies at Cambridge, McGill, and Oxford universities. Wright is the award-winning author of Surprised by Hope, Simply Christian, The Last Word, The Challenge of Jesus, The Meaning of Jesus (coauthored with Marcus Borg), as well as the much heralded series Christian Origins and the Question of God.
He also publishes under Tom Wright.
He also publishes under Tom Wright.
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May 9, 2021
Among my favorite essays was an excellent takedown of the Jesus Seminar titled "Five Gospels and No Gospel". That essay alone makes this collection worth reading.
July 26, 2023
This is a truly awesome collection of essays about the Gospels. Wright apologies that by necessity there will be repetition but this does not distract at all but instead drives home the points Wright makes that in ‘normal’ book would be tiresome. Read this. Read the Gospels. Live a life filled with Jesus.
November 17, 2021
Interesting collection of essays by N. T. Wright. As always, they are full of great questions, sometimes wordy responses, but also sharp humor and analogies.
March 22, 2023
Another refreshing survey of some of N.T Wright's great contributions to historical exegesis of the New Testament.
This particular offering provides a fresh look at some of the major themes of the gospels, and how the writers (and first readers) would have made sense and meaning out of Jesus's incarnation, death and resurrection. Of particular note are the points on Jesus as Lord of the Sabbath, and Lord of the Temple. Moreover, Wright's reframing of the old 'fully God and fully man' into 'both Israel's representative and the image of God as begotten by the Father' is urgent and crucial for the modern church today. Wright is able to discuss the Gospels in a way that tells a story, and in particular the story as he can best estimate the author's we're trying to say. For anyone who feels that much theology takes the life out of the 'good news', then this is for you. Fair warning, the book is relatively academic, and does require careful attention. Much of the content is excerpts from lectures he has given, or paper responses to quasi scholarship on Jesus (see the first few chapters on the Jesus seminar). Wright delivers a dense, yet ultimately rewarding collection of essays that will challenge how one has read Jesus, and beg the reader to go deeper into who Jesus really thought he was, and how he embodied that. As each chapter/essay is essentially free standing, the book can be consumed at the readers preferred pace.
Finally, it is clear that the 'New perspective on Paul' is well (perhaps over 1500 years) overdue. One hopes and prays that as it develops and moves from scholarship to the academy, and then pulpit, Christians will begin to recapture the story of God and the new life that He invites everyone too.
This particular offering provides a fresh look at some of the major themes of the gospels, and how the writers (and first readers) would have made sense and meaning out of Jesus's incarnation, death and resurrection. Of particular note are the points on Jesus as Lord of the Sabbath, and Lord of the Temple. Moreover, Wright's reframing of the old 'fully God and fully man' into 'both Israel's representative and the image of God as begotten by the Father' is urgent and crucial for the modern church today. Wright is able to discuss the Gospels in a way that tells a story, and in particular the story as he can best estimate the author's we're trying to say. For anyone who feels that much theology takes the life out of the 'good news', then this is for you. Fair warning, the book is relatively academic, and does require careful attention. Much of the content is excerpts from lectures he has given, or paper responses to quasi scholarship on Jesus (see the first few chapters on the Jesus seminar). Wright delivers a dense, yet ultimately rewarding collection of essays that will challenge how one has read Jesus, and beg the reader to go deeper into who Jesus really thought he was, and how he embodied that. As each chapter/essay is essentially free standing, the book can be consumed at the readers preferred pace.
Finally, it is clear that the 'New perspective on Paul' is well (perhaps over 1500 years) overdue. One hopes and prays that as it develops and moves from scholarship to the academy, and then pulpit, Christians will begin to recapture the story of God and the new life that He invites everyone too.
June 21, 2023
1. I’m not sure I’m smart enough to understand everything that Wright writes about and
2. It was a series of essays that were Kissel collected. Some were great, some seemed like academics arguing semantics which probably relates back to point #1.
2. It was a series of essays that were Kissel collected. Some were great, some seemed like academics arguing semantics which probably relates back to point #1.
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