Jesus und der Sieg Gottes

Who was Jesus? What did he want? And how does this relate to God's fundamental story with his people and with the world? These questions have been debated in New Testament scholarship for over one hundred and fifty years.

In this book, English New Testament scholar and former bishop Nicholas Thomas Wright presents a new approach to understanding Jesus. He interprets Jesus as a Jew and a Christian, as a person of his time and the Messiah of the world. The background includes not only the history of God with his people as recorded in the Old Testament, as this people understood it in the first century, but also a deep trust in the New Testament texts. The Gospels are thus not seen as a quarry from which individual verses are extracted and evaluated without regard to their context, but are read as ancient historical texts that recount how God has continued to write this story with his people and made it part of world history.

Wright's book is therefore not only a treasure trove for anyone interested in the Jesus of the first century and the New Testament, but it also opens up new insights and pathways toward a deeper understanding of the fundamental questions of Christianity: Who was Jesus and what did he want?.