Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament

Name: Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 1 (1 reviews)
Author: Christopher JH Wright
ISBN: 9798350864786

Author: Christopher JH Wright

Narrator: Dennis Kleinman

Unabridged: 10 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/12/2023

Categories: Nonfiction, Religion, Biblical Studies, Old Testament

Synopsis

We cannot know Jesus without knowing his story. Today the debate over who Jesus is rages on. Has the Bible bound Christians to a narrow and mistaken notion of Jesus? Should we listen to other gospels, other sayings of Jesus, that enlarge and correct a mistaken story? Is the real Jesus entangled in a web of the church's Scripture, awaiting liberation from our childhood faith so he might speak to our contemporary pluralistic world? To answer these questions we need to know what story Jesus claimed for himself. Christopher Wright is convinced that Jesus's own story is rooted in the story of Israel. In this revised and updated book he traces the life of Christ as it is illuminated by the Old Testament. And he describes God's design for Israel as it is fulfilled in the story of Jesus.

About Christopher JH Wright

Christopher J. H. Wright is international ministries director for Langham Partnership. His many books include The Mission of God, Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit, Old Testament Ethics for the People of God, and Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chad on February 28, 2019

This is not your typical “Christ in the OT” book. Rather than proceeding from the OT forward, he uses the Gospels as the primary structure, going back and forth from NT to OT, and vice versa. I found the book helpful in tracing the OT thematic elements through the Gospels. I would have liked to see......more

Goodreads review by Colin on November 05, 2020

Wow, what a delightful read. A wonderful look at both the deity of Jesus and the humanity of Jesus. I learned a lot through this reading and was brought to a fuller appreciation for the way the man, Jesus, would have learned about who he was and his mission as he studied the Jewish sacred text. High......more

Goodreads review by Bret on July 31, 2014

This review is for a previous edition published in 1992. There is no index or footnotes, which I regret, but Wright has done this on purpose to avoid making a "scholarly book." Thus, I did not take away any stars for it. This is a wonderful book that I think all Christians should read. Others intere......more

Goodreads review by Dylan on November 08, 2023

Read this for an OT class. This will certainly help improve your hermeneutic of the Old Testament, and see Jesus better when you read it. I thoroughly enjoyed and recommend this book.......more

Goodreads review by Derek on August 11, 2011

In this book, Wright calls us back to the roots of the understanding of the Messiah. In doing this, Wright points out that Jesus was connected to his Jewish history and the Old Testament more than many people realize. Jesus gained much of his identity from the OT (Son of Man, Son of God, etc) Very g......more