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Orson Hyde, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Hierarchy of the Gods
Lately, I have been looking into a very interesting topic in the Dead Sea Scrolls which concerns the idea that there are several levels of heaven and that each level has an appointed chief or guardian who rules over it. This is actually a fairly common theme in Jewish and Christian apocalyptic and mystical literature [...]
Also posted in Favorite Posts, Heavenly Ascents, Religious Scholars, Scripture, Temple Tagged Dead Sea Scrolls, Deification, Enoch, exaltation, Heaven, Heavenly Ascent, Heavenly Temple, hierarchy of gods, James Davila, Joseph Smith, liturgical works, Melchizedek, Millenial Star, Orson Hyde, Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice Comments closed
SANE Conference 2008–My Presentation on Two High Priesthoods
This is a video of my presentation at the SANE Conference. The title of my paper was: “Two High Priesthoods? Evidence for Changes in the Priesthood from First to Second Temple Judaism.” This was originally a paper that I wrote for an Old Testament class at Marquette University. I had to actually cut out a [...]
Also posted in Scholarly Conferences, Scripture, Temple Tagged Aaronic Priesthood, David J. Larsen, Enochic literature, Melchizedek Priesthood, SANE Conference, Zadokites Comments closed
Levi’s Initiation into the Angelic Priesthood
10/07/08 This post will cover our class discussion of the Testament of Levi, an important apocalyptic document. I will not go into an overview of all that the document contains of theological interest–there is a vast number of details that could potentially be interesting to the LDS reader. For a great overview of the relevant [...]
Also posted in Heavenly Ascents, School Journal, Temple Tagged Andrei Orlov, Dead Sea Scrolls, Deification, Levi, School Journal, Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice, Testament of Levi, Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs Comments closed
On 1 Enoch and the Rite of Atonement
This post contains more notes on 1 (Ethiopic) Enoch from Dr. Orlov’s class, plus more interesting passages from the text. I will also look at the role of the angel Asa’el (or Azazel) in the Israelite atonement ritual and his possible connection to the Old Testament scapegoat. Random Notes on the Enochic Tradition Dr. Andrei Orlov suggests that 1 [...]
Also posted in Early Christianity, Scripture, Temple Tagged 1 Enoch, Andrei Orlov, Azazel, Day of Atonement, High Priest, Jehovah, Jesus Christ, The Book of the Watchers, Yom Kippur Comments closed
The Priestly Suppression of Ancient Truths
King Josiah’s Reforms Before moving on to more evidence of the suppression of ancient truths, this time at the hands of postexilic priestly editors, I want to mention a couple more good commentaries on the Deuteronomistic reforms, mentioned in my last post. First, I remembered another great article–a book review–by Kevin Christensen, featured in [...]
Also posted in Early Judaism, Favorite Posts, Scripture, Temple Tagged Aaronic, Babylonian, Enochic Judaism, Exile, First Temple, Gabriele Boccaccini, High Priest, James VanderKam, Persian, Priesthood, Qumran, Reforms, Scripture, Second Temple, Zadokite Comments closed
Joseph Smith and the Genealogy of Melchizedek
Joseph Smith was a very bold individual. He made all kinds of daring religious claims and published many of them in writing for all to judge their legitimacy. In 1830, he published a book (The Book of Mormon) of nearly 600 pages of what he claimed to be additional Holy Scripture written by ancient prophets of God. Today, [...]
Also posted in Early Christianity, Scripture Tagged Abraham, Adam, Enoch, Genealogy, Joseph Smith, Melchizedek, Noah, Priesthood Comments closed
Dead Sea Scrolls Not Written by Essenes?