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Who Was Jesus?
Contributor(s): Wright, N. T. (Author)
ISBN: 080287181X     ISBN-13: 9780802871817
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
OUR PRICE:   $16.65  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: September 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - New Testament
- Religion | Biblical Studies - New Testament - Jesus, The Gospels & Acts
- Religion | Christian Theology - Apologetics
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.40 lbs) 144 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
- Theometrics - Evangelical
- Theometrics - Mainline
- Topical - Home Schooling
 
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Publisher Description:

Did the historical person Jesus really regard himself as the Son of God? What did Jesus actually stand for? And what are we to make of the early Christian conviction that Jesus physically rose from the dead?
In this book N. T. Wright considers these and many other questions raised by three controversial books about Jesus: Barbara Thiering's Jesus the Man, A. N. Wilson's Jesus: A Life, and John Shelby Spong's Born of a Woman. While Wright agrees with those authors that the real, historical Jesus has many surprises in store for institutional Christianity, he also presents solid reasons for discounting their arguments, claiming that they -fail to reach anything like the right answer- as to who Jesus really was.
Written from the standpoint of professional biblical scholarship yet assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Wright's Who Was Jesus? shows convincingly that much can be gained from a rigorous historical assessment of what the Gospels say about Jesus. This is a book to engage skeptics and believers alike.

Contributor Bio(s): Wright, N. T.: - N. T. (Tom) Wright is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and one of the most highly respected biblical scholars in the world today.