This includes reading the Bible as an integrally, intricately and intentionally connected literary whole and reading the “history” texts as prophetic narratives. Finally, he was instrumental in introducing me to biblical (including narrative and canonical) theology and the paradigm shift of rigorously (even ruthlessly) reading any part of scripture in the context of the whole of scripture. ![]() Second, he began the process of opening my eyes to what I will call the “narrative world” of the New Testament writers as the historical context in which the New Testament documents were written. First he rehabilitated my faith in the historicity of the Gospel story at a time when I needed it. Wright – especially JESUS AND THE VICTORY OF GOD and to some extent THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD – did three things for me as a Christian student of scripture. Witnesses and the Narrative World of Luke
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