Ġesù ta’ Nazaret, the Maltese translation of Pope Benedict XVI’s Jesus of Nazareth – Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection is out.

This is the follow up to the Pope’s best-selling book, Jesus Of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration.

In this new work, Pope Benedict challenges readers to contemplate the meaning and impact of Jesus’ life. He looks at the days from Jesus’ arrival in Jerusalem – to the herald of followers – to his suffering and death a few days later … and his resurrection and appearances to his apostles and disciples for another 40 days.

In this second volume, the Holy Father tackles many of history’s most volatile questions about the final week of Jesus’s earthly life: Who killed Jesus? Was Jesus a political revolutionary? Was he the Messiah, the Son of God? What did Jesus teach about the end of the world? How did Jesus interpret his death? What does the evidence tell us about Jesus’ ultimate fate? Did he really rise from the dead? Did the early Christians believe Jesus would return immediately?

Pope Benedict answers those questions and more. The figure of Jesus that emerges from this study is of someone who is both divine and human; God’s self-disclosure in his Son, who tells us about God but also about ourselves.

It’s clear that what interests the Holy Father is helping people to know and love someone whom he knows and loves.

• This book, translated to Maltese by Fr Joseph Debono is published by Reliġjon u Ħajja and may be obtained at Emmaus of Sliema and Birkirkara and all leading religious bookshops.