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Ancient Israelite Religious Reformation (OT Lesson 30)

2 Chronicles 29-30; 32; 34 (2 Kgs 18-19; 22-23) The Sunday School curriculum calls this lesson “Come to the House of the Lord.” This is an appropriate title for this block of scripture, as the narrative here relates how kings Hezekiah and Josiah of Judah cleansed the Temple of Jerusalem of all the alleged idolatrous [...]
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The Tree of Life as Mother, Son, and Love of God in 1 Nephi

As I was pondering over the book of 1 Nephi, chapter 11, just recently, so much of the ancient Near Eastern symbolism regarding the Tree of Life motif came flooding back into my mind. I’m grateful for the time I’ve been able to spend studying these ideas, especially since I’ve gone back to reread the [...]
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More Videos

I have been fiddling around with what movie-making software I have and put together the following video called “A Heavenly Journey.” The “journey” starts off in the presence of God and we then travel through the immensity of space to reach the Earth, the place where God determined that our mortal experience would take place. [...]
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Temple Studies Symposium III: Margaret Barker

Dr Margaret Barker: The Holy Oil in the Temple Tradition The following are my notes from Dr Margaret Barker’s presentation, which served as an introduction to the use of the holy anointing oil from the time of the First Temple period. Please excuse the incompleteness of the notes, and my apologies to Dr Barker if [...]
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The Tree of Life as Nurturing Mother

Before moving on further into the contents of the Orphic Gold Plates, I would like to look with more detail into a motif touched upon in my last post in this series.  I described how the Orphic inscriptions instruct the soul that they are to pass by the guardians in order to be able to [...]
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