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Jesus & the Restoration of Israel: A Critical Assessment of N. T. Wright’s Jesus and the Victory of God is unavailable, but you can change that!

N. T. Wright’s Jesus and the Victory of God is widely heralded as one of the most significant and brilliantly argued works in the current “third quest” of the historical Jesus. In this second volume, Wright uncovers a Jesus that most historians and believers never met. Rooted and engaged in the soil of Israel’s history, its first-century plight, and its prophetic hope, this portrait of Jesus has...

step-by-step argument, with a fresh reading of dozens of key texts in their original Jewish context, for saying that 1. Jesus thought of himself as Messiah; 2. he believed it was his vocation to die vicariously for Israel and the world; 3. he believed himself to be the embodiment of Israel’s God. In other words, in successive chapters Jesus’ messiahship, atonement and incarnation are each grounded not in theological a prioris but in careful historical argument of a type largely unknown in critical
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