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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 […]

IN DEFENSE of Israel's Heritage Plan:Op-Ed: In defense of Jewish heritageBy Danny Danon · March 8, 2010JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Imagine if someone forbade you from seeing your loved ones or banned you from visiting the graves of your grandparents. Imagine they told you that you have no right to come to your family home and your identity was simply a figment o […]

March is Women's History month. So I am going to be devoting a good portion of my blogging this month to a series I'm calling: Women Yesterday and Today. To start off the series, I thought I would highlight a few statistics that are very troubling.Women are now 50% of the workforce. On average women earn 77 cents to every dollar earned by men. Just […]

N Russell, Fellow Workers With God: Orthodox Thinking on Theosis (2009), ISBN-10: 0881413399 […]

Here are some interesting quotes about the divine council that I collected a while back and that I’d like to post here for safekeeping. I collected these from various discussions that LDS scholar David Bokovoy was having with Evangelical critics on a message board….so thanks to David for these. I have more extensive divine council [...] […]

I was walking to a seminar today with Emanuel Tov and he told me about a website he maintains where PDFs of many of his recent publication can be freely accessed. The website is emanueltov.info, and where you see the PDF symbol you can access the article. All the articles from his Greek and Hebrew [...] […]

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……………………………………………………………………………… […]

An Introduction to Modern Translation Philosophies We live in a day where the choice of differing translations and commentaries on the scriptures is almost overwhelming. When it comes to translations, there are several different philosophies. Formal Equivalence Formal equivalence is a translation philosophy that has as its goal as literal a translation of th […]

Gospel Doctrine Lesson #10 – Birthright Blessings; Marriage in the CovenantGenesis 24-29While the Sunday School lesson focuses on the blessings of birthrights and marriage, we’ll also discuss some other equally important issues in the story.Background:Abraham has faithfully followed the Lord through more than a century of trials and blessings. The blessings […]