life, mission and atonement of Jesus Christ culminated in more than 75 years of research and scholarship into the Savior s eternal role in his Father s kingdom, here on earth, and into the eternities. Dr. Skousen s broad expanse of research led him to interviews with living prophets and apostles, to the records and commentaries by the world s leading scholars on the Savior s life, and to the neglected ancient histories that shed so much new light on the role of Jesus Christ in our individual lives. After these many decades of inquisitive searching, compilation and distillation, the exquisitely simple but dynamic insights into the most important individual ever to enter mortality are finally brought together in this single volume with more than 2,500 citations. Dr. Skousen s riveting telling of the real story of Christmas lays the background and foundation to understand the love Jesus had for the Jewish people. Their role in Jesus s crucifixion and at