Category Archives: Heavenly Ascents

April DeConick: Seminar on “Mapping Death:Religious Preparation for the Afterlife Journey”

By David Larsen | Published: September 2, 2010
Looking back, I probably should have spaced these posts out over a few days to prevent you all from developing “information overload” syndrome.  But this last post today is a good one (at least I think so). It has come to my attention (via her blog Forbidden Gospels) that Rice University Professor of Biblical Studies, [...]
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New “Exagoge” of Ezekiel the Tragedian Fragment

By David Larsen | Published: August 27, 2010
Via my professor James Davila at PaleoJudaica.com: PSEUDEPIGRAPHA WATCH: Bob Kraft e-mails: I just returned from the Papyrology Congress in Geneva, and you will be interested in the paper by Dirk Obbink (Oxford), “A New Fragment of Ezekiel’s Exagoge from Oxyrhynchus.” According to the abstract, this “newly identified papyrus … preserves the earliest textual witness [...]
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“He Took Up…the Mantle of Elijah” (OT Lesson 29)

By David Larsen | Published: July 31, 2010
This lesson is about the transition of the prophetic office from Elijah to his successor, Elisha, and the ministry of Elisha to the people of Israel.  One of the first things that one may notice, after reviewing and comparing the narratives concerning Elijah and Elisha is that there are many similarities between them, especially in [...]
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More Videos

By David Larsen | Published: June 28, 2010
I have been fiddling around with what movie-making software I have and put together the following video called “A Heavenly Journey.” The “journey” starts off in the presence of God and we then travel through the immensity of space to reach the Earth, the place where God determined that our mortal experience would take place. [...]
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El Shaddai: Ascension of Metatron Video Game

By David Larsen | Published: May 20, 2010
I apologize for the dearth of good posts recently. I have been in the thick of some intense work on my dissertation, so things have been a little crazy lately.  Unfortunately, for most this post won’t make up at all for the lack of substantive material here! However, after having seen the news of this [...]
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