Critical Response



Critical Response

When most twenty-first century westerners think of Jesus, they do not visualize the real Jesus who walked this earth two thousand years ago. According to Christopher J.H. Wright, Jesus has become a “photomontage composed of a random mixture of Gospel stories, topped up with whatever fashionable image of him is current….cut off from the historical Jewish context of his own day, and from his deep roots in the Hebrew scriptures.” (Wright, 1995, pp.11)

In Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament, Dr. Wright seeks to reconnect the modern individual with the genuine, historical Jesus. He makes a strong and convincing ...