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Seeing the God: A Conference at Union Theological Seminary

Just read about a conference being held on May 12th at Union Theological Seminary.  I would love to be able to be there!  Funny enough, I will be in the US for the Expound Symposium two days later, but have no plans to stop in New York (at least not outside the airport)!  The theme [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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SBL 2008 Notes: Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism

Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism Session Topic: Enochic Literature Dr. Silviu Bunta (PhD, Marquette University) presiding First Presenter: Name Unknown The book of 1 Enoch describes a scene in which Enoch is shown a group of seven mountains. The middle mountain is God’s throne–the mountain of judgment The other mountains are thrones of the divine [...]
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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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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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