Interpreting Jesus brings together N. T. Wright's most important articles on Jesus and the Gospels over almost four decades.
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.

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Table of contents
- 1 Towards a Third ‘Quest’? Jesus Then and Now
- 2 Jesus, Israel and the Cross
- 3 ‘Constraints’ and the Jesus of History
- 4 Taking the Text with Her Pleasure: A Post-Post-Modernist Response to J. Dominic Crossan, The Historical Jesus
- 5 Jesus
- 6 Five Gospels but No Gospel: Jesus and the Seminar
- 7 Resurrection in Q?
- 8 Introduction to the Second Edition of B. F. Meyer, The Aims of Jesus
- 9 Kingdom Come: The Public Meaning of the Gospels
- 10 Whence and Whither Historical Jesus Studies in the Life of the Church?
- 11 The Evangelists’ Use of the Old Testament as an Implicit Overarching Narrative
- 12 John, Jesus and ‘The Ruler of This World’: Demonic Politics in the Fourth Gospel?
- 13 Pictures, Stories and the Cross: Where Do the Echoes Lead?
- 14 Son of Man – Lord of the Temple? Gospel Echoes of Psalm 8 and the Ongoing Christological Challenge
- 15 Son of God and Christian Origins
- 16 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
- 17 Son of Man and New Creation: The Biblical Roots of Trinitarian Theology
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Search items for Ancient Sources
- Search items for Modern Authors
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