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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...

momentary symbolic dramatization), an element of the event that Wright takes as a key to his intention; thus Jesus announced the future judgment and destruction of the temple at the hands of Rome (JVG 423). This judgment was Yahweh’s response to Israel’s sin, specifically the refusal of their vocational calling (i.e., to be ambassadors of Yahweh and a light to the world) and the (countervocational) adoption of a program of nationalistic violence. As Messiah, Jesus had already demonstrated the redundancy
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