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Temple Ordinances Post at The Millennial Star
I just wanted to alert you to a piece that I recently posted over on the popular LDS-themed blog, The Millennial Star, called “Should We Expect to Find the Temple Ordinances as One Coherent Whole in the Scriptures? Revisiting the Question.” This post was written as a response, or follow-up, to an old post by [...]
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The New Year in Ancient Israel
Happy New Year!!! I posted this on Scribd a while back, but if you want an idea of what kind of commemorations may have been going on at the New Year celebrations in Ancient Israel, check out the outline that I shared at SBL this past November. You can see it here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/44918660/New-Year-Festival-SBL-Handout I hope [...]
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Temple Studies Symposium
Sorry for the lack of posts lately — I’ve been really busy! Very early tomorrow morning, I’m heading to the Temple Studies Symposium organized by Margaret Barker, Lawrence Hemming and the Temple Studies Group. The symposium is being held, as in the past, at the Temple Church in London. I’m really looking forward to this [...]
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Professor Kristin de Troyer Publishes Ancient Leviticus Papyrus Codex
Just published Kristin De Troyer (Prof. of Old Testament / Hebrew Bible) as just published the Old Greek Schøyen Leviticus papyrus–one of the three oldest papyrus Leviticus codices available today. It is dated to the end of the 2nd cent. CE – beginning of the 3rd cent. CE. With its 16 pages, it surely is [...]
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On the Origins of the Alphabet
Another great post from Jim Davila at PaleoJudaica.com: ON THE ORIGINS OF THE ALPHABET: An interesting debate was started up in the March/April issue of BAR by Orly Goldwasser on whether the alphabet was invented in elite scribal circles or (her position) in a working-class environment. Anson Rainey and now Christopher Rollston have replied, taking the contrary view. [...]
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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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Cache of Ancient Books on Metal Plates Found: But Are They Real?