Jesus & the Restoration of Israel: A Critical Assessment of N. T. Wright’s Jesus and the Victory of God (Biblia.com)

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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...

agrees with Johnson and sharply opposes Borg and Crossan in criticizing their actual use of historical methods and the inappropriately skewed and skeptical results they produce.6 Chapters two (JVG 28–82) and three (JVG 83–124) contrast the legacy of William Wrede’s thoroughgoing skepticism in the post-World War II New Quest of the historical Jesus with the heritage of Albert Schweitzer’s thoroughgoing apocalyptic in the more recent Third Quest.7 With Schweitzer (and more recently E. P. Sanders and

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