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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...

crisis, one might complement and clarify this by following the equally compelling strand back to the “Israel as son of God” tradition and, specifically, to the wilderness-testing tradition (e.g., Deut 8:2–3). Whereas Israel failed their covenant testing, Jesus the Messiah—the new Israel in person—remained the faithful Son of God. The general thrust of Wright’s proposal appears to pass his proposed historical criteria, not least the double similarity and dissimilarity test. Once again, however, questions
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