Title: Interpreting Jesus : essays on the Gospels /
Authors: Wright, N. T.
Year: 2020
Subjects: Jesus Christ Person and offices.; Jesus Christ; Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Bible.; Christology
Abstract: Interpreting Jesus brings together N. T. Wright's most important articles on Jesus and the Gospels over the last three decades. Many of the included studies have never been published or only available in hard-to-find larger volumes and journals.  Here is a rich feast for all serious students of the Bible. Each essay will amply reward those looking for detailed, incisive, and exquisitely nuanced exegesis, resulting in a clearer, deeper, and more informed appreciation of the recent advances in Jesus studies, and their significance for theology today.
Contents: Towards a third 'quest'? : Jesus then and now -- Jesus, Israel and the cross -- 'Constraints' and the Jesus of history -- Taking the text with her pleasure : a post-post-modernist response to J. Dominic Crossan, The historical Jesus -- Jesus -- Five Gospels but no gospel : Jesus and the Seminar -- Resurrection in Q? -- Introduction to the second edition of B. F. Meyer, The aims of Jesus -- Kingdom come : the public meaning of the Gospels -- Whence and whither historical Jesus studies in the life of the church? -- The evangelists' use of the Old Testament as an implicit overarching narrative -- John, Jesus and 'The ruler of this world' : demonic politics in the fourth Gospel? -- Pictures, stories and the cross : where do the echoes lead? -- Son of Man - Lord of the temple? : Gospel echoes of Psalm 8 and the ongoing Christological challenge -- Son of God and Christian origins -- History, eschatology, and new creation in the Fourth Gospel : early Christian perspectives on God's action in Jesus, with special reference to the prologue of John -- Son of Man and new creation : the biblical roots of Trinitarian theology.