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Come, Follow Me Conversations with Robert Millet | Matthew 24, The Olivet Discourse (CFM 5/22-28) with special guest Craig Blomberg

Come, Follow Me Conversations with Robert Millet | Matthew 24, The Olivet Discourse (CFM 5/22-28) with special guest Craig Blomberg

FromThe John A. Widtsoe Foundation Podcast


Come, Follow Me Conversations with Robert Millet | Matthew 24, The Olivet Discourse (CFM 5/22-28) with special guest Craig Blomberg

FromThe John A. Widtsoe Foundation Podcast

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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
May 20, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Robert Millet is joined today by Craig Blomberg, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary. The pair discussed the signs of the times as found Jesus' Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24, which is covered in the New Testament Come, Follow Me curriculum on 5-22-28. 

Quotes & references from this podcast: 
Blomberg, Craig: The New American Commentary on Matthew [Nashville: Broadman Press, 1992], 369-70.: https://www.logos.com/product/2048/matthew

Dallin H. Oaks “Preparation for the Second Coming,” Ensign, May 2004. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2004/05/preparation-for-the-second-coming?lang=eng


Speaker Bios: 

Conversation host Robert L. Millet is Professor Emeritus of Ancient Scripture at Brigham University. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from BYU in Psychology and his PhD from Florida State University in Religious Studies. During his 31 years at BYU, he served as Chair of the department of Ancient Scripture, Dean of Religious Education, and Richard L. Evans Professor of Religious Understanding, a chair that focuses on interfaith relations. During the last thirty years he has been involved in academic dialogues with Evangelical Christians, the Church of the Nazarene, and Community of Christ (formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints). He is the author or editor of many books and articles dealing with the doctrine and history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its relationship to other faiths.

Guest Dr. Craig Blomberg is Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary in Littleton, Colorado. He holds a B.A. from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, the M.A. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and the Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Craig is the author of twenty books and has co-authored or co-edited ten more, along with more than 150 journal articles or chapters in multi-author works.

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Released:
May 20, 2023
Format:
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