-
Support My PhD Research
Pages
Favorite Posts
- Full Text of N.T. Wright’s Recent St Andrews Lecture
- The Exodus Narrative as Another Creation Story (for Old Testament Lesson 13)
- The Three Men Who Appeared to Abraham: The Godhead, Angels, or Human Beings? (Old Testament Lesson 8)
- The Incomparable Power of God’s Salvation: Musings on Psalm 18
- Professor John F. Hall: Notes from the Temple Studies Symposium III
- The Orphic Gold Tablets: Arriving in the Afterlife and the Importance of Memory for Salvation
- Orson Hyde, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Hierarchy of the Gods
- My Notes from the 2008 SANE Conference on Temples and Ritual in Antiquity
- The Human Form on God’s Throne
- We Lived in Heaven: Sarah Hinze on Pre-Birth Experiences
-
Recent Posts
- Thoughts on Crispin Fletcher-Louis, “The Revelation of the Sacral Son of Man”
- Second Temple Seal Used for Ritual Found at Temple Mount
- A Most Remarkable DVD: My Review of FAIR’s New Book of Abraham Video
- Jim Davila on “Ritual Praxis in Ancient Jewish and Christian Mysticism” with Responses
- BYU Religious Education Student Symposium: Call for Papers
- Insights from N.T. Wright’s Inaugural Lecture: Imagining the Kingdom of God
- Ascending into the Hill of the Lord: Video of My Expound 2011 Presentation
- In Memoriam: Matthew B. Brown, Popular LDS Author
- I’m Still Here!!
- Notes from Temple Studies Symposium V: The Temple Hidden in the Bible
Recent Comments
- Richard Heyduck on Insights from N.T. Wright’s Inaugural Lecture: Imagining the Kingdom of God
- Rameumptom on Insights from N.T. Wright’s Inaugural Lecture: Imagining the Kingdom of God
- David on Ascending into the Hill of the Lord: Video of My Expound 2011 Presentation
- Tomas G. Huidobro on Ascending into the Hill of the Lord: Video of My Expound 2011 Presentation
- Insights from N.T. Wright’s Inaugural Lecture: Imagining the Kingdom of God – endtimesprophecyblogs on Insights from N.T. Wright’s Inaugural Lecture: Imagining the Kingdom of God
- Insights from N.T. Wright’s Inaugural Lecture: Imagining the Kingdom of God | Heavenly Ascents on Full Text of N.T. Wright’s Recent St Andrews Lecture
- David Larsen on The Three Men Who Appeared to Abraham: The Godhead, Angels, or Human Beings? (Old Testament Lesson 8)
Categories
- Apocalypticism/Mysticism (23)
- Doctrinal Issues (46)
- Early Christianity (58)
- Early Judaism (33)
- Favorite Posts (12)
- Heavenly Ascents (39)
- LDS Interest (96)
- News and Events (80)
- Priesthood (16)
- Pseudepigrapha/Apocrypha (8)
- Religious Scholars (108)
- Scholarly Conferences (57)
- School Journal (18)
- Scripture (126)
- Temple (119)
- Uncategorized (29)
- YouTube Videos (7)
Archives
Category Archives: Scripture
Notes from Temple Studies Symposium V: The Temple Hidden in the Bible
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 [...]
Also posted in Religious Scholars, Scholarly Conferences, Temple Comments closed
Expound Symposium: My Notes on Matthew Brown’s “Cube, Gate and Measuring Tools: A Biblical Pattern”
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 [...]
Also posted in LDS Interest, Scholarly Conferences, Temple Tagged Apocalypse, Bible, Expound Symposium, Ezekiel, gate, Matthew Brown, New Jerusalem, New Testament, Old Testament, Psalms, Revelation, Scripture, Temple Comments closed
Ascending into the Hill of the Lord: My Expound Symposium Paper
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 [...]
Also posted in Heavenly Ascents, LDS Interest, Scholarly Conferences, Temple Tagged Enoch, Expound Symposium, Ezekiel, gates, Heavenly Ascent, Heavenly Temple, Jerusalem, Matthew Brown, Old Testament, pilgirmage, Psalms, Silviu Bunta, Temple Comments closed
Reviews of Interesting New Books on RBL
Via the Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter, 17 Feb 2011 ———————————— The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature and listed on the RBL blog (http://rblnewsletter.blogspot.com/): John J. Collins Beyond the Qumran Community: The Sectarian Movement of the Dead Sea Scrolls http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7404 Reviewed by Philip R. Davies David Lyle Jeffrey [...]
Also posted in News and Events, Religious Scholars Tagged Bible, books, Dead Sea Scrolls, RBL, reviews, Scripture, scriptures Comments closed
Did Jesus Deny the Possibility of Heavenly Ascents? (John 3:13)
If so, then maybe I should change the name of my blog!! A few people have been asking me whether I plan to do regular posts on New Testament Sunday School topics, as I had been doing with the OT. I would have to say that my tentative answer is either “maybe” or “probably not.” [...]
Also posted in Apocalypticism/Mysticism, Doctrinal Issues, Early Christianity, Sunday School Lessons Tagged Heavenly Ascents, Jesus, John, New Testament, Scripture Comments closed
Psalm 24: Temple Gates and Guardians
I have written a new post over at The Millennial Star looking at Psalm 24 and the possibility that it describes an ancient temple ritual in which pilgrims to the temple engaged in a question-and-answer dialogue with priests that acted as gatekeepers at the temple gates. If interested, please check out the post at: http://www.millennialstar.org/psalm-24-temple-gates-and-guardians/
Also posted in Doctrinal Issues, Heavenly Ascents, LDS Interest, Temple Tagged gatekeepers, New Year Festival, Priesthood, Psalms, ritual, Scripture, Temple Comments closed
On Divine Humanity
I found the following a while back and just recently looked at it again and thought it would be great to post here. British scholar Crispin Fletcher-Louis, in his book All the Glory of Adam, had the following to say about the early Jewish belief that all of humanity was meant to, and and eventually could, [...]
Also posted in Doctrinal Issues, Early Judaism, LDS Interest, Priesthood, Pseudepigrapha/Apocrypha, Religious Scholars, Temple Tagged Angelomorphic, angelomorphism, Crispin Fletcher-Louis, Deification, divine humanity, Divinity, Priesthood, Scripture, Temple Comments closed
A Most Remarkable DVD: My Review of FAIR’s New Book of Abraham Video