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Jesus In Tom Wright's 'The Original Jesus'
In The Original Jesus, author Tom Wright examines Jesus in the historical perspective. He attempts to take you back to Jesus's own time in order for the reader to recognize the message Christ was actually proclaiming and to interpret it and the Gospels in the context of those times.
In other words, Wright tries to "take you there" to see Jesus as he was 2,000 years ago. It is a short and seemingly uncomplicated book, filled with a number of illustrations of Jesus in the Holy Land, yet it does succeed surprisingly well in its aims.
I consider myself fairly knowledgeable about the subject of Jesus's words and deeds, and Wright gave me new perspectives that certainly enhance my understanding. He calls Jesus a revolutionary in the subtitle,
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