this direction for doctoral research intensified, and I began in March 2003. Within two months, N. T. Wright’s monumental volume on the resurrection arrived: The Resurrection of the Son of God. Later that same year the first volume of James D. G. Dunn’s work on the historical Jesus was published: Jesus Remembered. These authors gave unprecedented considerations to hermeneutics and method, as would Dale Allison two years later, in Resurrecting Jesus. Even after these works, a void remained when it
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