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Contact Me Page
I have just recently discovered that the contact form on my “Contact Me” page is not functioning properly. My apologies to anyone who has tried to contact me via that page. If you would like to contact me directly, my email address is david@heavenlyascents.com. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. David J. Larsen
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Heavenly Ascents Blog Surpasses 100,000 Views
Not that I am meticulously keeping track, but I did notice that this blog has now, as of this week (or maybe last week) received over 100,000 views since September 2008 (when I moved it to its current server). Thank you all who have visited the blog and who share my passion for studying the [...]
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Book Reviews of Interest
Some recent Review of Biblical Literature reviews that may be of interest to readers of this blog: Alejandro F. Botta The Aramaic and Egyptian Legal Traditions at Elephantine: An Egyptological Approach http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7223 Reviewed by Margaretha Folmer Paul F. Bradshaw Reconstructing Early Christian Worship http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7291 Reviewed by Tony Costa Fredrik Hägglund Isaiah 53 in the Light [...]
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Temple of Solomon Videos
I was out of town for the past few days and have had no internet access, so I apologize for the lack of posts. Here are a couple of decent videos that I found on YouTube while I was trying to put together a presentation on ancient temples for my ward’s Relief Society (I was [...]
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