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Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament (Knowing God Through the Old Testament Set) Paperback – September 19, 2014

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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' 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.

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Christopher J. H. Wright (PhD, Cambridge) is the international director of the Langham Partnership International. He is the author of Old Testament Ethics for the People of God and The Mission of God.



Christopher J. H. Wright (PhD, Cambridge) is the international director of the Langham Partnership International. His books include Old Testament Ethics for the People of God, The Mission of God, The Message of Ezekiel, The Message of Jeremiah and Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ IVP Academic; Second Edition, Revised, Second (September 19, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 083082359X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0830823598
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.25 inches
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Rev Dr Christopher J H Wright MA, PhD (Cantab)

Chris Wright was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1947, the son of missionary parents, and nurtured as an Irish Presbyterian. After university in Cambridge, he started his career as a schoolteacher in Grosvenor High School, Belfast. Then, after completing a doctorate in Old Testament economic ethics in Cambridge, he was ordained in the Church of England in 1977 and served as a curate in the Parish Church of St. Peter & St. Paul, Tonbridge, Kent.

In 1983 he took his family to India and taught at the Union Biblical Seminary (UBS), Pune for five years as a mission partner with Crosslinks (formerly BCMS). While at UBS he taught a variety of Old Testament courses at BD and MTh levels. In 1988 he returned to the UK as Academic Dean at All Nations Christian College (an international training centre for cross-cultural mission). Then he was appointed Principal there in September 1993.

In September 2001 he was appointed International Ministries Director of the Langham Partnership. This is a group of ministries originally founded by John Stott, committed to strengthening the church in the Majority World through providing resources for training evangelical theological educators to doctoral level, providing and helping to create evangelical Christian literature, and training pastors and lay leaders in biblical preaching.

Chris was the Chair of the Lausanne Theology Working Group from 2005 – 2011, and was the chief architect of The Cape Town Commitment – the Statement of the Third Lausanne Congress in October 2010.

Chris and his wife Liz, who have four adult children and eleven grandchildren, belong to All Souls Church, Langham Place, London, where Chris enjoys preaching from time to time as a member of the Staff team. Chris, who enjoys running, birding, and watching rugby, has a passion to bring to life the relevance of the Old Testament for Christian mission and ethics, and loves preaching and teaching the Bible.

His books include:

Knowing God: The Trilogy: Knowing God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit through the Old Testament (Langham and InterVarsity: 2018)

Deuteronomy: Understanding the Bible Commentary (Baker: 1996)

The Message of Ezekiel, The Bible Speaks Today (IVP: 2001)

The Message of Jeremiah, The Bible Speaks Today (IVP: 2014)

The Message of Lamentations, The Bible Speaks Today (IVP: 2015)

Old Testament Ethics for the People of God (IVP: 2004)

The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative (IVP: 2006)

Salvation Belongs to Our God: Celebrating the Bible’s Central Story (IVP and Langham: 2008)

The God I Don’t Understand (Zondervan: 2009).

The Mission of God’s People: A Biblical Theology of the Church’s Mission (Zondervan: 2010)

How to Preach and Teach the Old Testament for All It’s Worth (Zondervan: 2016)

Hearing the Message of Daniel (Zondervan: 2017)

The Old Testament in Seven Sentences (InterVarsity: 2019)

Exodus: The Story of God Bible Commentary (Zondervan: 2020)

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Frederick Maurice
5.0 out of 5 stars Christ is the Subject and Object of the Old Testamen
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Jesus is central to and completes the Old Testament. No contemporary author makes the case better than Wright. This is a must read for any serious student.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Helped me see Jesus in Old Testament
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So informative, and backed up with Scripture explanation. Shows why we need the Old Testament to see what the New Testament is about fully
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Joshua A McBride
5.0 out of 5 stars A Solid Work
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Christopher Wright does an excellent job rooting Jesus in his Old Testament context and demonstrating how the early church saw him in that light. The work itself is fairly accessible, it doesn't rely on previous engagement with the ideas contained within but is informative enough that unless you've spent considerable time parsing through all the intricacies of the Old Testament implications in the new you'll find some great new information. I'll talk briefly about what I considered to be the strongest chapters in the book.

Wright's discussion of the Old Testament identity of Christ is powerful and helpful in many ways. Wright asks a poignant question at the beginning of the chapter, simply writing, "But who was Jesus?" (109). A simple question with vast implications. He anchors Jesus in his identity as God's son by referencing Psalm 2:7 and its tie to the Davidic line and its later messianic readings and by anchoring him as the promised son, as an anti-type to Isaac, who was Abraham's promised son (112). Wright goes onto talk about typology and how it should be understood before branching out more widely to discuss what a Father-Son dynamic would have looked like in Israelite culture and later Jewish interpretation. In general, this is a powerful chapter for understanding the context of the dynamic between Jesus and his Father, but more specifically, it gives some highlights for how we can understand Jesus' mission and what it means to be a member of God's family.

The ethics and values of Jesus are based in his reading and understanding of the Hebrew Bible. Wright at one point writes, "In short, to 'love your neighbor as yourself' (Lev. 19:18, 34) is not a revolutionary new love ethic invented by Jesus. It was the fundamental ethical demand of Old testament holiness, which Jesus reaffirmed and sharpened in some cases." (202). Here Wright lays out how the Old Testament's seemingly harsh laws for holiness should be understood and how they deeply influenced Jesus. One cannot say, "I love the loving message of Jesus but hate the harshness of the Old Testament." That sentence is incompatible, as all of Jesus' message has its root in the Old Testament. The Old Testament when properly understood is shown to be heavily concerned with the question of justice and love, far and above that of perceived religiosity and self-righteousness.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read
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I have to say this book was very well written. I know how cliche it is to say I couldn't put it down. A perspective very interesting and captivating.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Deep read
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Went through this book with my small group. Felt like a college text book at times. Detailed and deep. Learned some new things, confirmed things I already knew.
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Kim Harris
5.0 out of 5 stars does an excellent job in this book showing how Israel and Jesus ...
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Over the last few years my eyes have been opened to the parallels between the books of Exodus and Matthew. As my Old Testament knowledge increases the richness and depth of the New Testament becomes that more alive in my life and teachings. Christopher Wright, does an excellent job in this book showing how Israel and Jesus were both to be blessings to the nations. Through each of them, God's grace to mankind is given. "As the Messiah of Israel he could be the Savior of the world." As a pastor I will be doing some self-examining in order to ask, "how much of a blessing my life and our congregation is to our community, county, state, and to the ends of the earth"?
I will most definitely be reading much more of Christopher Wright!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wright does a great job of exploring the topic coming at it from ...
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Wright does a great job of exploring the topic coming at it from an unusual approach. He takes the Gospel of Matthew as a starting point to look back at the Old Testament and what it teaches about Jesus. Although he does touch on some of the more familiar Messianic passages of the Old Testament, they are not the primary focus of his study. A lot of thought provoking insights into the Old Testament, the person of Jesus and our faith. I found the next to last chapter to be the most profound of the book. It is not a book to just pick up and read through in a few sittings. It requires a great deal of thought to process the information and implications of what is presented.
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Edward Springer
5.0 out of 5 stars Jesus is for Real
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What a good read! Some knowledge of Old and New Testament is required. This is richly rewarded by Professor Wight's friendly, knowledgeable and methodical connection of OT themes with Jesus the messiah. It was a religious experience reading this book.
The bonus is each chapter has a review and application questions for in depth study either as a group or serious self-study.
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Roberto Belmar
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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G.O.M.
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful updated reissue
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 22, 2015
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An excellent overview of the OT and how it's teaching was brought to life by Jesus, the One it points towards. An excellent book for new Christians who want to get a handle on the Old Testament. I bought it years ago but am enjoying using it again with the updated study guide.
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Richard Wadsworth
5.0 out of 5 stars Thought provoking, worship provoking, theologically robust, readable, profound and understandable.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 8, 2015
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Thought provoking but also worship provoking. Theologically robust and very readable. Profound yet simple enough for the "ordinary" person to understand. This book provides a deeper understanding of the ministry of Jesus and the purposes of God, and left me in awe of God's wisdom in His ways of revelation of Himself.
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