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April DeConick: Seminar on “Mapping Death:Religious Preparation for the Afterlife Journey”
Looking back, I probably should have spaced these posts out over a few days to prevent you all from developing “information overload” syndrome. But this last post today is a good one (at least I think so). It has come to my attention (via her blog Forbidden Gospels) that Rice University Professor of Biblical Studies, [...]
Posted in Doctrinal Issues, Heavenly Ascents, LDS Interest, News and Events, Religious Scholars, Scholarly Conferences, Temple Also tagged Afterlife Journey, Heavenly Ascents, Mellon Seminar, Religious Studies, Rice University, Temple Comments closed
SBL Notes 2009: April DeConick — Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism
My notes on: Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism – Sunday 4pm April De Conick Star Gates: What Were the Gnostics Doing? The Peratics (perasai, Greek for “Transcendentalists”) say: We alone have known that genesis is necessary and (we alone have known) have know the roads by which humans have entered into the cosmos. We have [...]
Posted in Apocalypticism/Mysticism, Early Christianity, Early Judaism, Heavenly Ascents, Religious Scholars, Scholarly Conferences Also tagged Cosmology, Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism, Egypt, Egyptian, Gnosticism, John Hall, Peratics, SBL Comments closed
Religious Scholars on the Web
First of all, I would like to apologize for the paucity of posts recently. I have been very busy with school, as it is the last semester of my MA program and there is a lot of extra work required for graduation. I wanted to share with you some links to some great religious scholars [...]
Posted in Religious Scholars Also tagged Andrei Orlov, Grandpa Enoch, Jim Davila, Michael Heiser, Rachel Elior, Robert Kraft Comments closed
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