Tag Archives: BYU

Daniel Peterson: “The Temple as a Place of Ascent to God”

I just read on MormonConferences.org that Professor Daniel Peterson will be giving a presentation entitled “The Temple as a Place of Ascent to God” on Sunday, July 12. The location will be 4517 W. Mille Lacs Drive, South Jordan, Utah 84095 (the Daybreak Stake Center near the new Oquirrh Mountain Temple) .  For those of [...]
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BYU Professor Donald Parry to Help with New Hebrew Bible

Some great news (news to me, anyways) about BYU’s Professor Donald Parry and his great new opportunity, from Professor Jim Davila’s PaleoJudaica.com blog, no less: PROFESSOR DONALD W. PARRY has been named as one of about two dozen editors of Biblia Hebraica Quinta. He will be working on the book of Isaiah. This article in TC gives background to Biblia [...]
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BYU Sacred Space Symposium

For anyone who hasn’t yet seen the notes from BYU’s recent Sacred Space Symposium, you can check them out here.
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More Notes from the SANE Conference on Temples

In the interest of keeping my promise, I am posting further notes from the presentations I saw at the SANE Conference on Temples and Rituals in Antiquity that was held November 7 at BYU. Although it may be rather “in-SANE” to post these notes after all the videos have already been posted, I hope they [...]
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SBL Experiences

I got back from the Society of Biblical Literature conference in Boston late Wednesday night. It was a great experience! I drove there and back (about a day long journey) with my whole family and we had the good fortune of being able to stay with our good friends Dan and Bunny French who we [...]
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SANE Conference 2008: Andrew Miller — Ante-Nicene Mysteries and New Testament Sources

This is Andrew Miller’s presentation on the Ante-Nicene Mysteries in New Testament Sources from the recent SANE Conference on Temples and Ritual in Antiquity at BYU. Andrew Miller has a great LDS apologetics blog over at strongreasons.wordpress.com. Part 1 Part 2
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Dr. Bill Hamblin Interview with Margaret Barker at TempleStudy.com

Attention Margaret Barker fans!! If you haven’t already noticed, Bryce Haymond over at www.templestudy.com has posted a series of videos (with more on the way) of an interview that Dr. William Hamblin of BYU conducted with Barker. The intimate and personal conversation covers many topics, including why Barker decided to study the Temple in the [...]
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