From the Last Supper Through the Resurrection: The Saviors Final Hours

By Robert L. Harmon

Gain a deeper understanding of the crowning events of the Savior's ministry as fourteen Gospel scholars offer fresh insights and details of the last days of the Savior's mortal life. These essays... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570089051
• ISBN13: 9781570089053
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Deseret Book Co
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.3" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

View of Christ's final hours from various LDS scholars' perspectives

This is a wonderful compilation of essays about the final hours of Christ's life written by various LDS scholars. This kind of reminds me of an updated version of Talmage's `Jesus the Christ', except much more focused and written by multiple people. The book consists of 14 essays written by 13 different scholars, all from BYU. It is broken into 3 parts; the historical setting, the story, and current issues. Each essay covers a different subject or time frame and despite the different authors, flows very well together. Under the historical setting part there were two essays. The first was on Jesus' prophecies of his death and resurrection, and the second was on the time frame between Bethany and his entry into Jerusalem. In the second part, each piece of the story is told giving details that scholars have dug up in recent years about life and customs in Jerusalem and the Roman Empire during that time frame. The first essay is about the last supper according to the synoptic gospels. The next essay is about the last supper according to John. The following essay is about what happened at Gethsemane. Another essay talks about the arrest. It is followed by a description of Christ before the Jewish authorities. The next author describes Jesus before the Romans. The seventh essay talks about the crucifixion. The next goes into details about the burial. The last essay in this section talks about the resurrection. In the third part, there are three essays covering various issues. The first talks about other early accounts of the story of the last days of Jesus with emphasis on snippets taken from Paul's epistles since they were written before the gospels were. The second essay talks about the responsibility for Christ's death and brings up several good points. The final essay discusses the conspiracy to deny the literal resurrection of Christ and how the Gnostics and others latched onto the Greek concept of a God without body, parts, or passions. It was a fascinating essay. This book is the third part of a three volume set, and I will definitely read the first two volumes. Not only is it full of scholarly information, but the authors each have a strong love for and testimony of Christ. I learned a lot of new information and highly recommend this book for those interested in learning more about the final hours of Christ.

The Life and Time of Messiah

In this book, 13 Ph.D. instructors from Brigham Young University and one part-time teacher in Religious Education at B.Y.U. with an M.A. in Anthropology, take on the world's New Testament scholars who portray Jesus Christ as anything other than G-d. Phew! I enjoyed the read and think they did a nice job presenting their case. Lots of footnotes - a serious book! The chapters explain when Jesus began his mission and tell among other things the details regarding Jesus' arrest, trial, crucifixion, burial, and resurrection. The resurrection is said to be the one event that actually validated Jesus' claim to be the Messiah and Son of G-d. One chapter was about the problem the former scholars of old had in not accepting the doctrine of Resurrection. The retired professor of Ancient History wrote in the closing pages of the book how the concept of G-d got all gummed-up and the ideas of Greek philosophy were used to create a hellenized deity! Her discourse is worth the price of the book. The entire book helped me overall to make some new discoveries and to pick-up many fascinating details about a life that I, admittedly, know so very little about.