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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 [...]
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Orson Hyde, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Hierarchy of the Gods

Lately, I have been looking into a very interesting topic in the Dead Sea Scrolls which concerns the idea that there are several levels of heaven and that each level has an appointed chief or guardian who rules over it.  This is actually a fairly common theme in Jewish and Christian apocalyptic and mystical literature [...]
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Apocalyptic Literature: On 1 Enoch

The following notes are representative of what we studied this past week for my Apocalyptic Literature class with Dr. Andrei Orlov. TEXT: 1 Enoch 1-36 = Book of the Watchers. Esp. chs. 14-15 – Enoch’s vision of the Heavenly Temple• Genesis 5-6 (in Hebrew). (You should probably look at these passages first for this post [...]
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