Wright, N. T. (Nicholas Thomas) creator text Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. miu 2014 1992 monographic eng 1 online resource. Originally published in 1993 and reprinted numerous times, N. T. Wright's Who was Jesus? considers many questions raised by three controversial books about Jesus: Barbara Thiering's Jesus the man, A. N. Wilson's Jesus: a life, and John Shelby Spong's Born of a Woman. While Wright agrees with those authors that the real, historical Jesus has many surprises in store for institutional Christianity, he also presents solid reasons for discounting their arguments, claiming that they "fail to reach anything like the answer" as to who Jesus really was. Written from the standpoint of professional biblical scholarship yet assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Who was Jesus? shows convincingly that much can be gained from a rigorous historical assessment of what the Gospels say about Jesus. This is a book to engage skeptics and believers alike. 1. The Portraits and the puzzles -- 2. Barbara Thiering: Jesus in code -- 3. A. N. Wilson: a moderately pale Galilean -- 4. John Spong: the bishop and the birth -- 5. Jesus revisited. N. T. Wright. Includes bibliographical references. Jesus Christ Historicity Thiering, B. E. (Barbara Elizabeth) Wilson, A. N 1950- Spong, John Shelby Criticism, interpretation, etc Jesus Christ RELIGION / Christian Theology / Christology Historicity of Jesus Christ BT301.9 .W75 1992eb 232.9/01 9781467438063 1467438065 E008E6AC-E727-49A2-9EA3-131840484A1E OverDrive, Inc. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1058539 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1058539 TEFOD 150408 20200709060409.0 ocn906816547 eng