Tag Archives: Early Christians

Book Review: Canon and Canonicity. The Formation and Use of Scripture

By David Larsen | Published: June 5, 2010
Via PaleoJudaica.com BOOK REVIEW (BMCR): Einar Thomassen (ed.), Canon and Canonicity. The Formation and Use of Scripture. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2010. Pp. 232. ISBN 9788763530279. $48.00.  Reviewed by David J. DeVore, University of California, Berkeley Table of Contents As editor Thomassen’s preface states (p. 7), the volume under review is the fruit of “Highways and [...]
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The History of Heaven in Early Christianity

By David Larsen | Published: August 15, 2008
 As promised, here are the rest of the notes from Thomas Olmstead on A History of Heaven: The Singing Silence by Jeffrey Burton Russell. There is some really great information here regarding bodily resurrection, the state in which we return to heaven, and early Christian thought regarding intelligences. Chapter three: The Heaven of the Early Christians. [...]
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The Antiquity of Baptism

By David Larsen | Published: July 5, 2008
Due to some of the lively discussion and questions that were generated from Baptism or Temple Initiation, I decided to post the following from an email I received from Bryce Haymond who is responsible for the wonderful www.templestudy.com. Bryce–ever the relentless researcher–came up with some great information regarding the antiquity of the ordinance of baptism. This is important to [...]
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Baptism or Temple Initiation? Part III

By David Larsen | Published: July 3, 2008
 Another Word on Resurrection A great insight that Barker gives us that I did not include in my last post has to do with both the resurrection and the priesthood. In my last post, I cited a portion of the Gospel of Phillip: The Tree of Life is in the midst of Paradise, and from [...]
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