The Biblical Research Institute and Andrews University Press are pleased to announce the immediate availability of a new textbook, authored by William G. Johnsson, intended for use in the undergraduate class, “Life and Teachings of Jesus.”
The text was commissioned by the General Conference Biblical Research Institute and is the first in a series of specialized textbooks in Adventist biblical studies and theology developed by BRI and published by Andrews University Press for use in undergraduate and graduate programs in Adventist colleges and universities. Future topics will include an undergraduate text on general Adventist doctrines, and graduate level texts on the Sabbath, Daniel and Revelation, the sanctuary, and the Spirit of Prophecy.
The purpose of the series is to provide desperately needed textbook resources to the expanding Adventist higher education system around the world. To accomplish this, BRI has partnered with Andrews University Press, the Church’s primary academic publishing house, to produce a series of new textbooks for our colleges. While this first textbook in the series is comparable priced in North America, the goal is to find creative ways to make the book inexpensive for students in colleges and universities outside North America.
William G. Johnsson has served as a New Testament professor at two Adventist universities, and is known around the Adventist world as editor and executive publisher of Adventist Review for more than two decades. He is a member of the Ellen G. White Estate Board of Trustees, and has authored nearly 30 books and more than one thousand articles.
Teachers and administrators worldwide can immediately begin working with Andrews University Press to establish Jesus of Nazareth as the standard text for “Life and Teachings of Jesus” classes in their institutions.
For more information on purchase and distribution, contact Ronald Knott, director of Andrews University Press (knott@andrews.edu; 1-269-471-6915).
CONTENTS
Preface IX
Prologue XV
PART I. HIS LIFE
Chapter 1. His Land and Times 3
Chapter 2. Can We Trust the Gospels? 15
Chapter 3. The Eternal Word 27
Chapter 4. God with Us 37
Chapter 5. Man with a Mission 47
Chapter 6. The Cousins 57
Chapter 7. Lord of the Temple 67
Chapter 8. A Man for All People 77
Chapter 9. Galilee and the Galileans 87
Chapter 10. Jesus and Conflict 95
Chapter 11. Jesus and the Weak 105
Chapter 12. The Shadow of the Cross 115
Chapter 13. Darkness and Light 125
Chapter 14. A Spectacular Miracle 135
PART II. HIS MESSAGE
Chapter 15. What Jesus Taught about God 149
Chapter 16. What Jesus Taught about Himself 159
Chapter 17. What Jesus Taught about the Holy Spirit 171
Chapter 18. What Jesus Taught about the Kingdom of Heaven 181
Chapter 19. What Jesus Taught about Grace 193
Chapter 20. What Jesus Taught about Discipleship 205
Chapter 21. What Jesus Taught about the Sabbath 215
Chapter 22. What Jesus Taught about the End 227
Chapter 23. What Jesus Taught about Prayer 237
Chapter 24. What Jesus Taught about Power, Sex, and Money 249
PART III. HIS PASSION
Chapter 25. From “Hosanna!” to “Crucify Him!” 261
Chapter 26. Messiah versus the Temple 269
Chapter 27. The Last Thursday 281
Chapter 28. The Judge on Trial 291
Chapter 29. Calvary 301
Chapter 30. He Is Risen! 313
Chapter 31. Story without End 323
additional reading 333
notes 361
image credits 365
scripture index 367
