It’s December, so time for the CRUX SOLA Best Books Awards 2020. There will be (8) categories (so 8 posts). Today I announce my winner (and honorable mentions) fort the category JESUS AND THE GOSPELS.

Jesus and the Gospels

WINNER: Helen Bond, The First Biography of Jesus

“Bond’s book shows the real interpretive payoffs of reading Mark in the genre of Greco-Roman biography. It is well-researched and masterfully written.”

Runner Up:

Matthew Thiessen, Jesus and the Forces of Death

“Fresh, provocative, convincing”

Honorable Mention:

Jeannine Brown, The Gospels as Stories

“Brown makes the use of narrative criticism in Gospels studies clear and useful for the uninitiated”