Tag Archives: Dionysus

Book Cover I know a lot of people who have been waiting for this book for many years.  One Eternal Round is the 19th volume in The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, and is his magnum opus, the volume of materials he worked on for a very long time until the end of his life.  The [...]Nibley’s ‘One Eternal Round’ Magnum Opus Published […]

Place: Provo, Utah Purpose: Funeral services for Marie Osmond’s son Today at a private service in Provo, Utah, President Thomas S. Monson presided and gave the closing remarks at the funeral of Marie Osmond’s son, Michael Bryan.  The services started with Marie’s brother, Donny Osmond, giving the opening prayer, and then family members expressing their thoug […]

CONFERENCE: Between Contact and Contrast: Jews and Christians in theSasanian Empire. 17 - 18 March 2010, SH 1 / 187, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.This workshop explores the contacts between Persian Christianity and Babylonian Jewry in the Sasanian Era, aiming to promote greater cooperation between these fields, and further interest in the value of compari […]

I have been asked by some of my blog readers to respond to Stephen Patterson's recent RBL review of my book, The Original Gospel of Thomas In Translation. It is a review, and normally authors don't respond to them. It represents one scholar's opinion of another's work. There is not much more to say than that. Some scholars have highly pra […]

Floor Mosaics from the original fourth century basilica.http://www.flickr.com/photos/hamblinofjerusalem/sets/72157623469137381/ […]

There is a small debate (though that word is probably too strong) in the LDS community about the nature of the Joseph Smith Translation (JST). Most average LDS probably assume that it is a restoration of what the original biblical authors wrote down. But many LDS scholars and thinkers would argue that the JST is [...] […]

It’s been mentioned over at Evangelical Textual Criticism and I thought I’d echo the plug for the upcoming conference associated with Alison Salvesen’s Greek Scripture and the Rabbis seminar. The conference takes place next Friday from 10 am until around 4 pm. £5 for students and £10 for everyone else, if you want to participate [...] […]

Один из моих студентов по имени Lee Systma составил полезную начальную библиографию по межзаветной литературе.Библиография находится здесь в формате ПДФ:http://www.marquette.edu/maqom/intertestbiblio.pdfОна включает в себя следующие разделы:Table of ContentsOnline Works……………………………………………………………………………………………...02General Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………… […]

As always, the following is my own understanding of the matter at hand, and I take complete responsibility for the contents therein. In 1830, only a few months after the publication of the Book of Mormon,  Joseph Smith, the founder and first Prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, began work on a [...] […]

Merlin Olsen, LA Rams football star and tv star (Little House on the Prairie, Father Murphy, Florist commercials), died at the age of 69. He has suffered from mesothelioma for about a year. As a player with the LA Rams, he was a member of the "Fearsome Foursome" with Rosie Greer, Deacon Jones and Lamar Lundy. Some of his records from his playing in […]