Books by Brian J. Wright

4 attractive, colourful, hardback books in box Unique picture book telling of Minor Prophets Obadiah, Zephaniah, Haggai and Habakkuk

God‿s blessings make us happy,His presence makes us strong. And when the Lord returns to us,He will right whatever is wrong! Haggai‿s prophesies teach obedience and promote courage,two virtues as essential today as when he first wrote.  The minor prophets offer major lessons for believers of all ages!These inspired truths are now shared in story book form for the very first time!Â

Much of the contemporary discussion of the Jesus tradition has focused on aspects of oral performance, storytelling, and social memory, on the premise that the practice of communal reading of written texts was a phenomenon documented no earlier than the second century CE. Brian J. Wright overturns that premise by examining evidence that demonstrates communal reading events in the first century. Wright disproves the simplistic notion that only a small segment of society in certain urban areas could have been involved in such communal reading events during the first century; rather, communal reading permeated a complex, multifaceted cultural field in which early Christians, Philo, and many others participated. His study thus pushes the academic conversation back by at least a century and raises important new questions regarding the formation of the Jesus tradition, the contours of book culture in early Christianity, and factors shaping the transmission of the text of the New Testament. These fresh insights have the potential to inform historical reconstructions of the nature of the earliest churches as well as the story of canon formation and textual transmission.