Eric D Huntsman

Eric Dennis Huntsman is a religion professor at Brigham Young University (BYU) and coordinator of that university's ancient near eastern studies program.

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• Eric d huntsman miraculous signs in the gospel of john revealing the divine jesus
• Eric d huntsman rebuking the devil and healing the fallen jesus miracles in luke
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Huntsman was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and raised in New York, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. Huntsman served a mission for the LDS Church in Thailand. He graduated from BYU with a BA in Classical Greek and Latin in 1990. He then earned an MA and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1993 he married N. Elaine Scott. They are the parents of two children.

Huntsman joined the BYU faculty in 1994 as an instructor in classics. In 1997, after completing his Ph.D., he became an assistant professor (the lowest rank of full-time, full-status faculty) in Ancient History and Classics. In 2003 Huntsman transferred departments to be a member of the Department of Ancient Scripture in BYU's College of Religious Education. In 2008 Huntsman moved up to the rank of associate professor. In 2012 he began serving as the Coordinator of BYU's Ancient Near Eastern Studies Program, and in 2015 he was promoted to full professor

Huntsman was among the contributors to the documentary Messiah: Behold the Lamb of God. He was a co-author of Jesus Christ and the World of the New Testament: An Illustrated Guide for Latter-day Saints along with Richard N. Holzapfel and Thomas A. Wayment, and he contributed a number of chapters to their series The Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ. He also wrote “Levels of Meaning: The Ara Pacis Augustae and the Teaching of Roman History,” which was published in the journal Interdisciplinary Humanities Vol. 15, Issue 1 (Spring 1998), p. 62–76. His article "Livia Before Octavian" was published in the journal Ancient Society in 2009. In addition his article And the Word was Made Flesh: An LDS Exegesis of the Blood and Water imagery in John was published by the journal Studies in the Bible and Antiquity in 2009 (pages 51–65). Huntsman's study of the Passion Narratives entitled God So Loved the World: The Final Days of The Savior's Life was published in 2011. A companion volume on the Infancy Narratives, Good Tidings of Great Joy: An Advent Celebration of the Savior's Birth, was released in the fall of 2011. He assisted S. Kent Brown with his commentary on the Gospel of Luke and in August 2014 released The Miracles of Jesus with Deseret Book.

In 2012 Huntman became the coordinator of BYU's Ancient Near Eastern Studies Program.

Huntsman is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and the Association of Ancient Historians.

Huntsman is a member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and hosts "Mormon Identities" on the Mormon Channel.