N.T. Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God

N.T. Wright's The Resurrection of the Son of God is a major, closely argued historical monograph defending the claim that the bodily resurrection of Jesus is the best historical explanation for the rise of early Christian belief, built on Wright's extensive scholarly command of first century Jewish and Greco-Roman ideas about the afterlife. It is respected across the field for its historical rigor and comprehensiveness even by scholars who reject its conclusion, and that split matters: Wright's affirmative historical case for a bodily resurrection remains a minority position within mainstream historical-critical New Testament scholarship, most of which treats the resurrection as a claim outside what historical method can adjudicate either way, or explains the belief through visionary or other naturalistic accounts. Cite Wright as a serious scholarly argument for a contested conclusion, not as the field's settled verdict.