Category Archives: Scholarly Conferences

BYU Religious Education Student Symposium: Call for Papers

By David Larsen | Published: November 10, 2011
Friday, February 17, 2012 Purpose of Conference:   To provide a forum for students to research, write, and present papers  about religious subjects from a faithful perspective. Eligibility:   All full-time BYU undergraduate and graduate students attending BYU-Provo winter semester 2012 are invited to submit a paper. Cash awards for winning papers:                [...]
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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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Temple Studies Group Symposium V: The Temple Hidden in the Bible

By David Larsen | Published: June 11, 2011
The time has come for another brilliant Temple Studies symposium, this one appropriately themed: “The Temple Hidden in the Bible” in light of this year’s commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible. Symposium V will be held on Saturday 2 July 2011, 10am-4pm at the Temple Church, London. For more details, please [...]
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Expound Symposium: My Notes on Matthew Brown’s “Cube, Gate and Measuring Tools: A Biblical Pattern”

By David Larsen | Published: May 31, 2011
The following are my notes on Matthew B. Brown’s presentation at the recently held Expound Symposium that I participated in on May 14th (see my initial report on the event here). Matthew’s paper was intriguing — a very insightful treatment of temple-related topics that readers of this blog would surely find extremely interesting.  My notes [...]
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Ascending into the Hill of the Lord: My Expound Symposium Paper

By David Larsen | Published: May 26, 2011
The following is my presentation, entitled “Ascending into the Hill of the Lord: The Psalms as a Key to Understanding the Rituals of the First Temple” from the Expound Symposium. Please note that this is a draft — it is in the format in which I presented it at the symposium — it has not [...]
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Report from the 1st Annual Expound Symposium

By David Larsen | Published: May 23, 2011
On Saturday the 14th of May I had the opportunity to attend and participate in the 1st Annual Expound Symposium, which was held in Provo at the Brigham Young Academy building.  For anyone who was there, I hope I had a chance to talk to you — I met so many bright and interesting people [...]
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