N. T. Wright offers a penetrating assessment of the major scholarly contributions to the current 'quest' for the historical Jesus. He then sets out in fascinating detail his own compelling account of how Jesus himself understood his mission: how he believed himself called to remake Israel, the people of God, around himself; how he announced God's judgement on the Israel of his day, especially its Temple and hierarchy; and how he saw his own movement as the divinely ordained fulfilment of Israel's destiny.

Tom Wright

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Preface

Part 1: Introduction

Chapter 1: Jesus then and Now

Chapter 2: Heavy Traffic on the Wredebahn: The 'New Quest' Renewed?

Chapter 3: Back to the Future: The 'Third Quest'

Chapter 4: Prodigals and Paradigms

Part 2: Profile of a Prophet

Chapter 5: The Praxis of a Prophet

Chapter 6: Stories of the Kingdom (1): Announcement

Chapter 7: Stories of the Kingdom (2): Invitation, Welcome, Challenge and Summons

Chapter 8: Stories of the Kingdom (3): Judgment and Vindication

Chapter 9: Symbol and Controversy

Chapter 10: The Questions of the Kingdom

Part 3: The Aims and Beliefs of Jesus

Chapter 11: Jesus and Israel: The Meaning of Messiahship

Chapter 12: The Reasons for Jesus' Crucifixion

Chapter 13: The Return of the King

Part 4: Conclusion

Chapter 14: Results

Appendix: ‘Kingdom of God’ in Early Christian Literature

1. Synoptic Tradition

2. John

3. Acts

4. Pauline Corpus

5. Rest of NT

6. Other Early Christian and Related Literature:

Bibliography

Abbreviations

A: Primary Sources

B: Secondary Literature

Index of Ancient Sources

1. Old Testament

2. Apocrypha

3. Pseudepigrapha

4. Qumran

5. Josephus

6. Philo

7. Rabbinic Works

8. New Testament

9. Other Early Christian and/or Gnostic Works

10. Pagan Sources

11. Persian Texts

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Selected Topics

Wright, Tom

__In this highly anticipated volume, N. T. Wright focuses directly on the historical Jesus: Who was he? What did he say? And what did he mean by it?__

Wright begins by showing how the questions posed by Albert Schweitzer a century ago remain central today. Then he sketches a profile of Jesus in terms of his prophetic praxis, his subversive stories, the symbols by which he reordered his world, and the answers he gave to the key questions that any world view must address. The examination of Jesus' aims and beliefs, argued on the basis of Jesus' actions and their accompanying riddles, is sure to stimulate heated response.

Wright offers a provocative portrait of Jesus as Israel's Messiah who would share and bear the fate of the nation and would embody the long-promised return of Israel's God to Zion.

N.T. Wright offers a penetrating assessment of the major scholarly contributions to the current 'quest' for the historical Jesus, and then sets out in detail his own account of how Jesus himself understood his mission.

Who was Jesus? What can we know about him? Despite much media interest in recent sensational writing, there is still a serious quest for Jesus. This book has been written in an accessible style for lay people as well as for students, scholars, historians and theologians.

N. T. Wright offers a penetrating assessment of the major scholarly contributions to the current 'quest' for the historical Jesus.

Wright sets out in fascinating detail his own compelling account of how Jesus himself understood his mission: how he believed himself called to remake Israel, the people of God, around himself; how he announced God's judgement on the Israel of his day, especially its Temple and hierarchy; and how he saw his own movement as the divinely ordained fulfilment of Israel's destiny. Nearly twenty years on, this book is still a major point of reference for serious study of the historical Jesus Companion volume to The New Testament and the People of God (1992), The Resurrection of the Son of God (2003) and Paul and the Faithfulness of God (2013)

'No New Testament scholar since Bultmann has even attempted - let alone achieved - such an innovative and comprehensive account of New Testament history and theology.' Richard B. Hays 'It is difficult to know which feature of it is to be admired the most: the immense erudition - the lively examples - the easy intelligibility of the writing - the lucid ordering of the argument.' The Expository Times 'No one could read this without learning something fresh about almost every verse of the Synoptics, and being provoked into new wrestling with the text - ' Rowan Williams, Church Times

N. T. Wright is Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of over seventy books, including the 'For Everyone' guides to the New Testament and, most recently, Creation, Power and Truth, Finding God in the Psalms, The Meal Jesus Gave Us, Surprised by Scripture, Simply Good News and Paul and the Faithfulness of God.

Acclaimed theologian N.T. Wright illustrates Jesus' mission in the popular Christian Origin and the Question of God series

Wright sets out in fascinating detail his own compelling account of how Jesus himself understood his mission: how he believed himself called to remake Israel, the people of God, around himself; how he announced God's judgement on the Israel of his day, especially its Temple and hierarchy; and how he saw his own movement as the divinely ordained fulfilment of Israel's destiny.

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