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Today a renewed and strenuous scholarly search for the historical Jesus is underway. In the midst of well-publicized and controversial literature on Jesus, N. T. Wright's lectures and writings have been more popular for providing a brand new, provocative and historically credible family portrait. Now this paperback model of Wright's classic work provides the same original content plus even more insight with an all-new introduction by the writer. Out of his own dedication to both historical scholarship or grant and Religious ministry, Wright challenges us to roll-up our sleeves and take seriously the analysis of the historical Jesus. He creates, "Many Christians have been, frankly, sloppy in their thinking and talking about Jesus, and hence, regretfully, in their praying and in their practice of discipleship. We cannot expect that by saying the word Jesus, still less the word Christ, we have been automatically in touch with the true Jesus who strolled and talked in first-century Palestine. . . . Only by hard, historical work can we move toward a fuller comprehension of what the Gospels themselves were attempting to state." The Challenge of Jesus poses a double-edged challenge: to expand in our knowledge of the historical Jesus within the Palestinian world of the first hundred years, and to follow Jesus more faithfully into the postmodern world of the twenty-first hundred years.
