Course curriculum

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    The Jesus You Need to Know

    • The Jesus You Need to Know Participant Notes

    • Lesson 1: Introduction to the Historical Jesus

    • Lesson 2: Entering into a First-Century Mindset

    • Lesson 3: Galilee and the Aims of Jesus

    • Lesson 4: The Aims of Jesus and Going Up to Jerusalem

    • Lesson 5: Jerusalem and the Cross

    • Lesson 6: The Resurrected King

    • Lesson 7: What God Was Doing through Jesus

    • Lesson 8: How the Gospels Frame Jesus and Our Response

Instructor(s)

The Rev'd Dr. Peter Walker

Dr. Walker studied Classics and Early Church History at Cambridge University, followed by extensive post-doctoral research on attitudes to Jerusalem within the Bible and the era of the early church. He taught at Wycliffe Hall in Oxford, Trinity School for Ministry in Pennsylvania, and has led guided tours to the lands of the Bible for over 30 years. Dr. Walker is widely acknowledged as one of the foremost experts on the Holy Land. His book, In the Steps of Jesus, has come to be recognized as the authoritative guide for Christian visitors. These lectures will highlight the issues discussed in The Story of the Holy Land (2011), The Land of Promise (2000), and especially, Jesus and the Holy City (1996). For the second lecture he will be joined by the Rev’d Colin Chapman, who taught for 18 years in Middle Eastern seminaries and whose books on contemporary politics in the Holy Land are widely respected for their informed perspective and biblical wisdom: Whose Promised Land? (1983; 4th edition 2015) and Whose Holy City? Jerusalem and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2004).