---
title: Jesus the Christ
description: "1915 book by James E. Talmage, a Mormon apostle, published by the Mormon Church: a study of the life and mission of Jesus in forty-two chapters, with notes and an index."
authors:
  - Talmage, James Edward
collections:
  - theology
tags:
  - theology
  - christology
  - 20th-century
  - mormon-writings
published: "1915"
publisher: The Deseret News
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
edition: First edition (Salt Lake City, 1915)
language: en
type: book
reference: 'James E. Talmage, *Jesus the Christ* (Salt Lake City: The Deseret News, 1915), "Title Page."'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/jesuschriststudy00talm
  identifier: jesuschriststudy00talm
  scan: Internet Archive scan of the 1915 Deseret News edition
  transcription: OCR text of the 1915 scan, with line-break hyphens joined, running heads and page numbers removed and obvious scan errors corrected; printed pagination kept as page markers. Footnotes and the notes at the end of each chapter are kept. Not proofread against the page images.
curator_note: The 1915 first edition; later editions were revised. Treated as a Mormon primary source, included for historical and doctrinal study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1915 US publication (Salt Lake City, The Deseret News; copyright notice of 1915); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://archive.org/details/jesuschriststudy00talm
  publication_year: 1915
  note: Publication year of the edition used is 1915; any modern rights notice in the Internet Archive metadata does not apply to this 1915 text.
---

# Title Page

A Study of the Messiah and His Mission according to Holy Scriptures both

Ancient and Modern

By

JAMES E. TALMAGE

One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of

Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

PUBLISHED BY THE CHURCH

Salt Lake City, Utah

The Deseret News

1915

Copyright, 1915, by JOSEPH F. SMITH Trustee-in-Trust for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.