Eric D. Huntsman

Who is Eric D. Huntsman?

Eric Dennis Huntsman is a religion professor at Brigham Young University.

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 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 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.

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, 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. Huntsman has just published a study of the Passion Narratives entitled God So Loved the World: The Final Days of the Savior's Life. A companion volume on the Infancy Narratives, Good Tidings of Great Joy: A Scriptural Celebration of the Savior's Birth, will be released in the fall of 2011. He is currently assisting S. Kent Brown with his commentary on the Gospel of Luke.