How does the purpose of baptism change in the Book of Acts? How does the meaning and purpose of Jesus’ death and resurrection evolve in the Book of Acts? How does speaking in tongues in Acts and what Paul later writes about to the Corinthians differ? How does Joseph Smith use Joel chapter 2 differently than how the Book of Acts uses it? All these questions and more are discussed in this episode of The CES Podcast.

Welcome to episode 15 of Rational Faiths’ newest podcat series, The CES Podcast (for the rest of us), with Bible scholar, Dr. Sheldon Greaves and his co-host, Michael Barker. Dr. Greaves and Mike Barker will be looking at this year’s seminary and institute curriculum, which covers the New Testament, and will be distilling a week’s worth of lessons and readings down to a half hour podcast. Episode 15 will cover Acts chapter 1-5.

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– Dr. Greaves and Mike

Dr. Sheldon Greaves received his Ph.D. in Ancient Near Eastern Studies with an emphasis in Hebrew Bible from UC Berkeley in 1996. He is a co-founder of Henley-Putnam University, a private university catering to the intelligence and counterterrorism communities. He has taught Old and New Testament and similar subjects at Stanford University. At present, Dr. Greaves leads seminars on biblical and related topics as Scholar-in-Residence at the Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan in Corvallis, Oregon. He is also the founder of Guerrilla Scholars (501(c)(3) status pending), a loose association of learners, thinkers, teachers, artists, and recovering academics that can best be described as, "a bunch of geeks who want to save the world."

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