Category Archives: Temple

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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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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Jews Ready for Renewal of Passover Sacrifice in Jerusalem Tonight

By David Larsen | Published: April 18, 2011
Rabbi Yehudah Glick has 300 sheep and goats on-hand and 20 trained slaughterers ready to lead the Jewish world in a renewal of the Pessach (Passover) sacrifice on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.  Now all they need is for the Messiah to come. While Jews, for many centuries now, have celebrated Passover with the Seder [...]
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UK Temple Studies Group Symposium V: The Temple Hidden in the Bible

By David Larsen | Published: April 8, 2011
The Temple Studies Group website has just posted information regarding their next symposium, to be held July 2 at the Temple Church in London.  I will definitely be there!  Anyone else planning on going? The focus of this symposium will be on finding the Temple hidden in the Bible.  There are four confirmed speakers with [...]
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The Temple Institute: 1 Nisan, The 2nd Annual International Temple Mount Awareness Day

By David Larsen | Published: April 5, 2011
The following is from an email sent out by the Jerusalem-based The Temple Institute. This event is scheduled for today, April 5th. APRIL 5TH/ROSH CHODESH NISAN HAS ARRIVED! THE 2ND ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL TEMPLE MOUNT AWARENESS DAY: 6 HOUR LIVE STREAMING VIDEO EVENT This day is the anniversary of the dedication of the Tabernacle in the [...]
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Psalm 24: Temple Gates and Guardians

By David Larsen | Published: February 3, 2011
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/
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