Masterpiece

It is difficult to speak of this work without over selling. Serious Bible students and theologians alike must read Wright's work. He does not simply rehash old theories; he steps out with fresh insight and boldly states his positions without apology. He masterfully builds his case. ^M

Profoundly Intellectual and Brilliant...

I was introduced to N.T. Wright in a Life of Christ class at my university, and out of my research for greater understanding of who "Christ" was and is, sought to read the great 6 volume work which has yet to be completed. I was taken-back by how large the first volume was, however, in reading the first page or two, you get sucked into this great third contemporary quest for the "historical Jesus." I am shocked that out of all those on board for the third quest, N.T. Wright is one of the only ones to believe that Jesus indeed is the Jewish Messiah. In the New Testament and the People of God, Wright establishes a greater background than people are traditionally willing to accept - that is that Jesus was Jewish. He removed the clouds that people paint over their eyes when focusing upon the greatest figure in history. The idea that Jesus was similar to the image created in our minds in the movie "Jesus of Nazareth"; an Englishman who wears clean clothes, speaks English, had a well-kept modern beard, and looked nothing like how people in the Middle East do look. In this book, I enjoy Wright's scholarly effort to tame the American Evangelical Fundamentalist view on who Jesus was. I encourage all of you who would like to enjoy a deeply complex scholarly work on the historical Jesus and are mildly serious scholars to begin your "quest" by finding out who He was, and taking into account Wright's view on the Jewishness of Christ our Lord.

A MUST READ

This series although quite lengthy from THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD, JESUS AND THE VICTORY OF GOD, AND THE RESSURECTION OF THE SON OF GOD. Is a must read for anyone who is interested in the truth. Wright gets into not only the theological but the historic fact of political upheaval in the first centuries as well the hope of the everyday Jew and the messiah they were looking for. Wright fully believes in the resurrection of Christ and that he is the vary presence of God and that in him all the scripture are fulfilled. And that God does not come in and out of the world but is always in control it a lot of reading but well worth it. This series is a refreshing in that it looks into how the bible was understood in the first centuries and not how the twentieth century sees it and Christ. This is the right step to take as Christian