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looking over Jesus’ shoulder as he reads his Jewish Bible: Christopher J. H. Wright, Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged , on September 9, 2007| Leave a Comment »

When scholars write popular books, it is sometimes evident that they are speaking a strange tongue. Chris Wright’s semi-popular biblical theology does not suffer this deficiency. Wright wears his scholarship lightly and writes with a good preacher’s respect for his audience’s intelligence and lack of awareness of the issues that detain and entertain the specialist. The result is a solid and enriching example of a mature hermeneutic that takes the Old Testament seriously in its own right, and then seeks in it a witness to Jesus. (more…)

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