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  • Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels
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    Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels

    The IVP Bible Dictionary Series

    Edited by Joel B. Green, Jeannine Brown, and Nicholas Perrin

    ECPA Christian Book Award Winner

    Biblical Foundations Award Winner

    Preaching's Preacher's Guide to the Best Bible Reference

    An Essential Reference forStudying Jesus and the Gospels

    Jesus has been described as sage, shaman, revolutionary, marginal Jew, Mediterranean peasant or a prophet ...

  • Jesus the Messiah: A Survey of the Life of Christ, By Robert H. Stein
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    Jesus the Messiah

    A Survey of the Life of Christ

    by Robert H. Stein

    The time is ripe for a new account of the life of Jesus. It has been over twenty-five years since an evangelical New Testament scholar has written a textbook survey of this type. Today the landscape of Jesus and Gospel studies has been radically transformed by new questions and critical challenges. No less remarkable is the contemporary renaissance of our knowledge of the world of Jesus.In Jesus ...

  • The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is, By N. T. Wright
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    The Challenge of Jesus

    Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is

    The IVP Signature Collection

    by N. T. Wright

    In the midst of many well-publicized and controversial books on Jesus, N. T. Wright's lectures and writings have been widely recognized for providing a fresh, provocative, and credible portrait. Originally published in 1999 and with a new introduction in 2015, The Challenge of Jesus presents an accessible introduction to the "quest for the historical Jesus" and why it matters ...

  • Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels, By Kenneth E. Bailey
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    Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes

    Cultural Studies in the Gospels

    by Kenneth E. Bailey

    Understand the Life of Jesus in Cultural Context

    Discover a deeper, richer understanding of the life and teachings of Jesus with Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes by renowned scholar Kenneth Bailey. This book invites readers to see Jesus through the lens of his historical and cultural context, lifting away the layers of Western interpretation that have shaped modern ...

  • Rediscovering Jesus: An Introduction to Biblical, Religious and Cultural Perspectives on Christ, By David B. Capes and Rodney Reeves and E. Randolph Richards
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    Rediscovering Jesus

    An Introduction to Biblical, Religious and Cultural Perspectives on Christ

    by David B. Capes, Rodney Reeves, and E. Randolph Richards

    Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention

    One of Nijay Gupta's Best Academic New Testament Books

    Who is your Jesus? Matthew's teacher? John's Word made flesh? Hebrews' great high priest? What if it turned out that your Jesus is a composite of your favorite selections from the New Testament buffet, garnished with some Hollywood and Americana?

    Rediscovering ...

  • Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels, By Craig A. Evans
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    Fabricating Jesus

    How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels

    by Craig A. Evans

    Modern historical study of the Gospels seems to give us a new portrait of Jesus every spring--just in time for Easter. The more unusual the portrait, the more it departs from the traditional view of Jesus, the more attention it gets in the popularmedia.

    Why are scholars so prone to fabricate a new Jesus? Why is the public so eager to accept such claims without question? What methods and assumptions ...

  • Jesus Behaving Badly: The Puzzling Paradoxes of the Man from Galilee, By Mark L. Strauss
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    Jesus Behaving Badly

    The Puzzling Paradoxes of the Man from Galilee

    by Mark L. Strauss

    Everybody likes Jesus. Don't they?We overlook that Jesus was

    • Judgmental—preaching hellfire far more than the apostle Paul
    • Uncompromising—telling people to hate their families
    • Chauvinistic—excluding women from leadership
    • Racist—insulting people from other ethnic groups
    • Anti-environmental—cursing a fig tree and affirming animal sacrifice
    • Angry—overturning ...
  • The Jesus Quest: The Third Search for the Jew of Nazareth, By Ben Witherington III
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    The Jesus Quest

    The Third Search for the Jew of Nazareth

    by Ben Witherington III

    • Voted one of Christianity Today's 1996 Books of the Year

    In recent years Jesus' time, place and social setting have received renewed scholarly attention. New research on the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Jewish and Hellenistic texts has resulted in a surge of new images of Jesus and new ideas about his ministry. Dubbed the Third Quest for the historical Jesus, this recent ...

  • Jesus, the Temple and the Coming Son of Man: A Commentary on Mark 13, By Robert H. Stein
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    Jesus, the Temple and the Coming Son of Man

    A Commentary on Mark 13

    by Robert H. Stein

    The Gospels contain many hard sayings of Jesus, but perhaps none have puzzled and intrigued readers as much as Jesus? discourse on the coming of the Son of Man in Mark 13. Is Jesus speaking entirely of an event in the near future, a coming destruction of the temple? Or is he referring to a distant, end-of-the-world event? Or might he even be speaking of both near and distant events? But in that ...

  • The Parables of Jesus, By David Wenham
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    The Parables of Jesus

    The Jesus Library

    by David Wenham

    Good news for the needy. Bad news for the power brokers. Jesus came into the world announcing a new order where Satan is overthrown and broken relationships are restored. Jesus' most vivid portraits of this new kingdom are found in the parables.

    David Wenham explores the splendor and subtleties of Jesus' world-changing message, offering a nontechnical but comprehensive look at dozens of Jesus' ...