Peter Wright Peter Wright Peter Maurice Wright (9 August 191627 April 1995) was a principal scientific officer for MI5, the British counter-intelligence agency. His book "Spycatcher", written with Paul Greengrass, became an international bestseller with sales of over two million copies. "Spycatcher" was part memoir, part exposé of what Wright claimed were serious institutional failings in MI5 and his subsequent investigations into those. He is said to have been influenced in his counterespionage activity by James Jesus Angleton, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) counterintelligence chief from 1954 to 1975. Wright was educated at Bishop's Stortford College, a boarding independent school for
Nazarene (title) derivation from Nazareth. The Gospel of Matthew explains that the title Nazarene is derived from the prophecy "He will be called a Nazorean", but this has no obvious Old Testament source. Some scholars argue that it refers to a passage in the Book of Isaiah, with "Nazarene" a Greek reading of the Hebrew "ne·tser" (branch), understood as a messianic title. Others point to a passage in the Book of Judges which refers to Samson as a Nazirite, a word that is just one letter off from Nazarene in Greek. The Greek New Testament uses "Nazarene" six times (Mark, Luke), while