David Bokovoy’s New Blog

I would be doing you a great disservice if I didn’t alert you to the fact that David Bokovoy, a PhD candidate at Brandeis University, has set up an exciting new blog at www.davidbokovoy.com.  You should recognize the name from a number of great recent publications through FARMS (of The Maxwell Institute at Brigham Young University). If you haven’t had the chance to see them, go here: http://farms.byu.edu/authors/?authorID=76

He also has a book out, written together with LDS scripture scholar John Tvedtnes, called Testaments: Links between the Book of Mormon and the Hebrew Bible. For more on this work, see Jeff Lindsay’s review of it here: http://mormanity.blogspot.com/2005/08/recommended-reading-bokovoy-and.html

For a nice summary of Bokovoy’s lively exchange with evangelical Hebrew Bible scholar Michael S. Heiser over Psalm 82 and what we should understand by the phrase “Ye are gods,” see here:  http://heartissuesforlds.wordpress.com/2007/11/23/heiser-and-bokovoy-exchange-introduction/ 

On a more personal note, I have had the privilege of meeting David Bokovoy on a couple of occasions in the past few months and can truly say I found him to be brilliant, quick-witted, and just a really nice guy.  He has had some of the best training in Hebrew and the Hebrew Bible that you can get (Brandeis is very well recognized for Hebrew and Jewish studies–LDS scholar Victor Ludlow also went there).  

David graduated from BYU with a BA in History and Near Eastern Studies and then earned his MA in Ancient Near East and Judaic Studies from Brandeis. As mentioned, he is currently pursuing his PhD there, with an emphasis on Hebrew Bible.  His current topic of focus is the Divine Council motif.  He also currently teaches at the Boston, MA LDS Institute of Religion (I’d love to have a class from him!). 

His blog, which has actually been around for a month or so (shows you how busy I’ve been), covers a good range of topics, including:

• Biblical Studies
• The Book of Abraham
• The Book of Mormon

His posts are scholarly, deep, and very informative. I highly recommend checking out www.davidbokovoy.com!

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