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Reviews of Interesting New Books on RBL
Via the Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter, 17 Feb 2011 ———————————— The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature and listed on the RBL blog (http://rblnewsletter.blogspot.com/): John J. Collins Beyond the Qumran Community: The Sectarian Movement of the Dead Sea Scrolls http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7404 Reviewed by Philip R. Davies David Lyle Jeffrey [...]
Posted in News and Events, Religious Scholars, Scripture Also tagged books, Dead Sea Scrolls, RBL, reviews, Scripture, scriptures Comments closed
Isaiah Ascends to Heaven to See the Social Trinity
The title of this blog post is meant to catch your attention more than anything, and if you are reading this, then I guess it worked!! The purpose of this post is to simply announce, for those who haven’t seen them, a couple of papers that I have recently posted on my Scribd account. The [...]
Posted in Apocalypticism/Mysticism, Early Judaism, Scripture, Temple Also tagged Ezekiel, Merkabah, Old Testament, Rachel Elior, Temple Comments closed
The Book of Daniel
I have not put up anything in the past few weeks from the Sunday School lessons, partially because locally we’ve had Stake Conference, then I was at SBL, and then the we were snowed in last Sunday — so I’m not really sure where everyone’s at in the curriculum. I imagine that most people have [...]
Posted in Apocalypticism/Mysticism, Early Judaism, School Journal, Scripture Also tagged apocalyptic, Biblical studies, Daniel, Jim Davila, notes Comments closed
SBL 2010: LDS and the Bible, Session 2
Okay, here are my notes from the second and last session of the Latter-day Saints and the Bible unit, which took place on Tuesday, 23 November 2010 at the SBL Annual Meeting in Atlanta. This session was also meant to focus on the legacy left by the late BYU professor Hugh W. Nibley. John Hall, [...]
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SBL 2010: LDS and the Bible, Session 1
To conclude my notes from SBL, I want to present the material I took down from the two “Latter-day Saints and the Bible” sessions that were held Monday and Tuesday mornings. Because I want to share my notes on these in greater detail, this will be divided into two posts. The theme was the same [...]
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SBL 2010 Summary (Continued)
In the interest of continuing what I started the other day, here is a summary of what else I was able to see and learn at the recent SBL Conference in Atlanta. Saturday afternoon I participated in a session regarding Teaching Philosophies, directed by BYU’s Taylor Halverson. This was a very helpful, practical presentation of [...]
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Expound Symposium: My Notes on Matthew Brown’s “Cube, Gate and Measuring Tools: A Biblical Pattern”