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"Historical Jesus" subject of BYU lecture March 8

Craig L. Blomberg, professor of the New Testament at the Denver Seminary, will be giving a lecture titled “What Are They Saying About the Historical Jesus These Days?” Tuesday, March 8, at 4 p.m. in 238 Herald R. Clark Building at Brigham Young University.

The lecture is sponsored by the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies and co-sponsored by the Ancient Near Eastern Studies Program.

Blomberg is the author of 12 books and has co-authored or co-edited eight more, along with dozens of journal articles and chapters in multi-author works. His most recent publications include “A Handbook of New Testament Exegesis” (2010) and “Jesus and the Gospels: An Introduction and Survey” (2009). He preaches and teaches regularly in a variety of churches on Sunday mornings.

He received a bachelor’s degree from Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill., a master’s degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Ill., and a doctorate from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

This lecture will be archived at kennedy.byu.edu/archive. For more information, contact Lee Simons at (801) 422-2652 or lee_simons@byu.edu. 

Writer: Mel Gardner

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