Author Archives: David Larsen

Ascending into the Hill of the Lord: Video of My Expound 2011 Presentation

By David Larsen | Published: October 24, 2011
My thanks to Tyler Livingston for putting the following video together from my May 2011 Expound Symposium presentation.  The title of my paper was “Ascending into the Hill of the Lord: The Psalms as a Key to Understanding the Rituals of the First Temple.” Tyler has nicely worked in the power-point images from my presentation, so [...]
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In Memoriam: Matthew B. Brown, Popular LDS Author

By David Larsen | Published: October 7, 2011
Prolific and popular LDS author, Matthew B. Brown, was laid to rest today at the Orem City Cemetery at 1pm.  He passed peacefully through to the other side of the veil on October 5, 2011 after a brief and unexpected illness. I only met Matthew personally fairly recently, when I participated in the Expound Conference [...]
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I’m Still Here!!

By David Larsen | Published: September 27, 2011
You may have been wondering as I have not posted anything here for about two months!! I apologize to anyone who is actually still interested in reading this blog!  Over the Summer I was compelled by my financial situation here in Scotland to get a full-time summer job, so between that and my research, I [...]
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Notes from Temple Studies Symposium V: The Temple Hidden in the Bible

By David Larsen | Published: July 8, 2011
The following are my notes from the recent Temple Studies Symposium, held July 2, 2011 at the Temple Church, London.  As always, the event was a great success with many important insights imparted.  It was a pleasure to see my friends and colleagues there, including Margaret Barker, Revd Robin Griffith-Jones, Jeffrey Bradshaw, William Hamblin, John [...]
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Off to the Temple Studies Symposium

By David Larsen | Published: June 30, 2011
I feel bad that I haven’t posted anything for so long. I’ve recently started working a job for the Summer and that with still trying to work full-time on my dissertation is keeping very busy to say the least. But I have nothing to complain about as I am heading down to London tomorrow for [...]
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The 1st St Andrews Graduate Conference for Biblical and Early Christian Studies

By David Larsen | Published: June 20, 2011
(Some of the conference participants, from left to right; Dan Batovici — St Andrews, Justin Mihoc — Durham, Beniamin Pascut — Cambridge, Nicholas Ellis — Oxford, Michael Clark — Birmingham, David J. Larsen — St. Andrews, Albertina Oegema — Groningen) Well, the first of what we hope will become an annual event here at the [...]
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James Davila: More Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Project News

By David Larsen | Published: June 14, 2011
Professor James Davila, of the University of St Andrews, shared some recent news today, on his PaleoJudaica blog, regarding the monumental More Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Project that he is directing, together with Professor Emeritus Richard Bauckham, and with Dr. Alexander Panayotov as co-editor.  In his words: I am very happy to announce that the first [...]
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Heavenly Sabbath, Heavenly Sanctuary: Jared Calaway’s PhD Dissertation Online

By David Larsen | Published: June 11, 2011
If you haven’t heard of Jared Calaway, he finished his PhD in Biblical Studies at Columbia University last year, writing his dissertation under the direction of the late (and great) Alan Segal. I have been following Jared’s work for the past few years and I have been intrigued by his insights into the world of [...]
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