The Divine Christ taught in John 1 with Eric Huntsman (week of Jan. 16, first to listen to)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Kerry and Eric discuss ways to understand John in general, and specifically the rich and deep teachings in John 1. They help us understand what the divinity of Christ as taught by John means, and what it means that He is the word, and what it means to accept His light and be His disciple. This episode will enhance the rest of your study of the Book of John, and is indispensable for it.
We are grateful for our sponsor, Lisa Spice, and our editor, Alexia Muhlestein, and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the scriptures are real podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that have become more real to us because we believe that helps us draw more power from the scriptures and we need all the help we can get. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm your host, Kerry Mealstein, and I'm so glad to have with me today my longtime friend and colleague, Eric Huntsman, |
| 0:27.6 | who is currently in Jerusalem as the associate director of the Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies, |
| 0:33.9 | BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies. |
| 0:35.8 | He's also, I think you did your, |
| 0:38.0 | your doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania in Roman, I think classics basically with Latin |
| 0:43.9 | but Roman history and taught that at BYU for quite a while and then moved over to our department |
| 0:49.8 | and teaches all sorts of stuff. And especially classes, well, New Testament for the most part, |
| 0:56.5 | but he's done some specialty classes on John, even for our faculty. |
| 1:00.8 | He's written a wonderful book that we'll talk about as we go along. |
| 1:05.4 | If I have the title, right, it's becoming the beloved disciple or something along those lines. |
| 1:09.5 | And so it seemed like the perfect |
| 1:11.0 | guest to talk to us about John chapter one. So welcome Eric. Hey, Carrie, thanks for having me. |
| 1:16.2 | It's good to see you, by the way, after having been gone for a while. Yeah, it's good to see you. |
| 1:20.0 | Tell us a little bit more about yourself or your family. Well, as you mentioned, my research and writing emphasis has been on the New Testament Gospels, the Ministry of Jesus, but in particular the Gospel of John. |
| 1:33.0 | You mentioned that I'd done my PhD in ancient history in Greek and Roman history. |
| 1:36.4 | I had done classical Greek and Latin as my undergraduate major at BYU. |
| 1:39.5 | It was actually John that got me interested in Greek. |
| 1:42.5 | I had taken a Greek in the New Testament kind of honors class with Wilford Gr me interested in Greek. I had taken a Greek from New Testament kind of |
| 1:44.5 | honors class with Wilford Griggs back in 1984, which got me interested in Greek. I went on my |
| 1:50.9 | mission to Thailand and came back and changed my majors to Greek and Latin, got sucked into that |
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