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Ascending into the Hill of the Lord: My Expound Symposium Paper
The following is my presentation, entitled “Ascending into the Hill of the Lord: The Psalms as a Key to Understanding the Rituals of the First Temple” from the Expound Symposium. Please note that this is a draft — it is in the format in which I presented it at the symposium — it has not [...]
Posted in Heavenly Ascents, LDS Interest, Scholarly Conferences, Scripture, Temple Also tagged Enoch, Expound Symposium, gates, Heavenly Ascent, Heavenly Temple, Jerusalem, Matthew Brown, Old Testament, pilgirmage, Psalms, Silviu Bunta, Temple Comments closed
Isaiah Ascends to Heaven to See the Social Trinity
The title of this blog post is meant to catch your attention more than anything, and if you are reading this, then I guess it worked!! The purpose of this post is to simply announce, for those who haven’t seen them, a couple of papers that I have recently posted on my Scribd account. The [...]
Posted in Apocalypticism/Mysticism, Early Judaism, Scripture, Temple Also tagged Bible, Merkabah, Old Testament, Rachel Elior, Temple Comments closed
Ezekiel’s Remarkable Visions
Due to my schedule for the past few weeks, I have been unable to continue my weekly posts on the Sunday School lessons from the Old Testament. As I was looking over the lesson to be studied this week, I was somewhat disappointed that it did not cover some of the early chapters of the [...]
Posted in Apocalypticism/Mysticism, Scripture, Sunday School Lessons, Temple Also tagged Chariot, Merkabah, Rachel Elior, Sunday School, Temple, Throne, William Hamblin Comments closed
The Human Form on God’s Throne
Michelangelo’s Depiction of Moses on a Throne The following post represents research I did for Dr. Orlov’s Apocalyptic Literature class in preparation for a presentation I did on themes from the text of an ancient drama known as Exagoge, written by Ezekiel the Tragedian. This text is only known by fragments of the original [...]
Posted in Favorite Posts, Heavenly Ascents, School Journal, Scripture, Temple Also tagged Andrei Orlov, anthropomorphic, Deification, divine throne, Ezekiel the Tragedian, Godhead, Merkavah, Moses, School Journal, scriptures, Throne Comments closed
From Isaiah to Ezekiel to Heavenly Ascent
My Comments on Martha Himmelfarb’s Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses The next major work that I will be looking at here is Princeton professor of religion, Martha Himmelfarb’s book entitled Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993). This work is significantly influential in the [...]
Posted in Heavenly Ascents, Religious Scholars, Scripture, Temple Also tagged Apocalypse, First Temple, Heavenly Ascents, Isaiah, Martha Himmelfarb, Merkabah, Second Temple, Temple Comments closed
They Shall See His Face
Insights from Margaret Barker’s Temple Themes in Christian Worship: Part V After a rather long tangent looking at the suppression of ancient doctrines and ordinances, I now return to my commentary on Margaret Barker’s work on the themes of the First Temple that show up in later Christian beliefs. This post will focus on Chapter [...]
Posted in Early Christianity, Scripture, Temple Also tagged First Temple, Godhead, Moses, Psalms, Second Temple, Sinai, Temple, vision of God, Yahweh Comments closed
Expound Symposium: My Notes on Matthew Brown’s “Cube, Gate and Measuring Tools: A Biblical Pattern”