Interpreting Scripture: Essays on the Bible and Hermeneutics
Overview
Interpreting Scripture brings together N. T. Wright’s most important articles on Scripture and hermeneutics over the last two decades. Many of the included studies have never been published or only available in hard-to-find larger volumes and journals.
Here is a rich feast for all serious students of the Bible. Each essay will amply reward those looking for detailed, incisive, and exquisitely nuanced exegesis, resulting in a clearer, deeper, and more informed appreciation of Scripture and its application to Christian life and thought today.
- Combines Wright’s most important articles on Scripture and hermeneutics over the last two decades
- Contains detailed, incisive, and exquisitely nuanced exegesis
- Provides a clearer, deeper, and more informed appreciation of Paul
- The Lord’s Prayer as a Paradigm of Christian Prayer (2001)
- Freedom and Framework, Spirit and Truth: Recovering Biblical Worship (2002)
- Christian Origins and the Question of God (2008)
- Faith, Virtue, Justification and the Journey to Freedom (2008)
- Imagining the Kingdom: Mission and Theology in Early Christianity (2012)
- Revelation and Christian Hope: Political Implications of the Revelation to John (2012)
- The Monarchs and the Message: Reflections on Bible Translation from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century (2013)
- Some New Testament Perspectives and Questions (2015)
- Apocalyptic and the Sudden Fulfilment of Divine Promise (2016)
- The Bible and Mission (2016)
- Wouldn’t You Love to Know? Towards a Christian View of Reality (2016)
- Sign and Means of New Creation: Public Worship and the Creative Reading of Scripture (2017)
- The Powerful Breath of New Creation (2018)
- Title: Interpreting Scripture: Essays on the Bible and Hermeneutics
- Author: N. T. Wright
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publication Date: 2020
- Pages: 256
- Resource Type: Collected Essays
- Topic: Biblical Interpretation
Nicholas Thomas “Tom” Wright (1948–) is a New Testament scholar, Pauline theologian, and Anglican bishop and currently Research Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christianity at St. Mary's College in the University of St Andrews and Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. Christianity Today named him one of today's top theologians.
Wright was born in Morpeth, Northumberland, and recounts an awareness of God's presence from a young age—and that relationship with God ever since is reflected in his life and work. He's a prolific author; one of his most popular books, Surprised by Hope, frames the resurrection of the dead as the appropriate hope for all believers rather than an overemphasis on just "going to heaven when you die." He's among the leading theologians in the New Perspective on Paul debate. Wright has several honorary doctoral degrees, and in 2014, the British Academy awarded him the Burkitt Medal "in recognition of special service to biblical studies." In 2015, he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Wright served as chaplain at Cambridge from 1978 to 1981, then as assistant professor of New Testament language and literature at McGill University in Montreal. Before becoming a chaplain, tutor, lecturer, and fellow at Oxford in 1986, Wright served as dean of Lichfield Cathedral, canon theologian of Westminster Abbey, and the bishop of Durham from 2003–10. In addition to the entire New Testament for Everyone Series, some of N. T. Wright's books include The New Testament in Its World: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians, Who Was Jesus, The New Testament and the People of God, God and the Pandemic, Evil and the Justice of God, Surprised by Hope, and Simply Christian. He coauthored Jesus the Final Days with Craig A. Evans.