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First Annual Expound Symposium in Provo, May 14th!!!!
I just wanted to alert you, especially those who live or will be in Utah next month, to the imminent advent of the First Annual Expound Symposium, to be held Saturday, May 14th, at the Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah. I will be coming all the way from Scotland to speak at this event [...]
Posted in LDS Interest, News and Events, Scholarly Conferences, Uncategorized Also tagged Brigham Young Academy, Expound, ExpoundLDS, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, LDS, Matthew Brown, Provo, Symposium, Utah Comments closed
Heavenly Ascents News
Just wanted to give you a brief update of some things I’ve been doing lately. I posted (a couple of weeks back now) some material over at The Millennial Star about the reforms of King Josiah and the Deuteronomists and how these reforms may have affected the theological themes found in the Old Testament we [...]
Posted in Early Christianity, Early Judaism, LDS Interest, News and Events, Scholarly Conferences Also tagged BYU, ExpoundLDS, lead plates, Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, Provo, St. Andrews, Symposium Comments closed
The Location of the Nail-Prints in Jesus Hands? A Discussion at Cambridge University
The question and its answer were posted by Rob Bradshaw on his blog biblicalstudiesorguk.blogspot.com. My thanks to Jeff Bradshaw (no relation, as far as I know) for bringing this post to my attention. Where were the nail-prints in Jesus’ hands – in his wrists or his palms? This question was raised last Saturday during a [...]
Posted in Doctrinal Issues, Early Christianity, LDS Interest, Scholarly Conferences Also tagged Cambridge, hands, Jesus, nail-prints, wrists Comments closed
The Temple Studies Group Symposium III: Laurence P. Hemming
Laurence Hemming is one of the co-founders of the Temple Studies Group. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Lancaster and a Fellow, tutor in Philosophy and Liturgy, and member of the Advisory Board, of St. Bede’s Hall, an independent Catholic College in Oxford. He [...]
Posted in Priesthood, Scholarly Conferences, Temple Also tagged chrism, consecration, holy oils, Laurence Hemming, London, Priesthood, Roman Catholic, Temple Church, Temple Studies Group, Temple Studies Group Symposium, UK Comments closed
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 [...]
Posted in Scholarly Conferences, Scripture, Temple Also tagged BYU, David Seely, Day of Atonement, James Carroll, Josephus, SANE, Temple Comments closed
Off to the SBL Conference
I will be attending the national Society of Biblical Literature conference in Boston this weekend. These conferences are great, as they represent some of the newest and best research on biblical studies today. Many of the nation’s top professors, students, and scholars will be giving presentations on (mostly) exciting topics with an immense variety of [...]
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Seeing the God: A Conference at Union Theological Seminary